Hi Omar,
Very interesting request. There’s quite a bit out there on the topic, especially by the postcolonial geographers. Here are a few references, mostly on Africa and water & sanitation infrastructure (including an unashamed personal plug!):
DERMAN, B. and HELLUM, B., 2002. Neither tragedy nor enclosure: Are there inherent human rights in water management in Zimbabwe communal lands? European Journal of Development Research 14 (2), 31 – 50.
HERBERT, E., 2002. Twilight on the Zambezi: Late colonialism in central Africa New York: Palgrave MacMillan
KAZIMBAYA-SENKWE, B. and GUY, S., 2007. Back to the future? Privatisation and the domestication of water in the Copperbelt Province in Zambia, 1900-2000. Geoforum, 38, 869 – 885.
NJOH, A., 2002. Development implications of colonial land and human settlement schemes in Cameroon. Habitat International, 26 (3), 399-415.
MYERS, G., 2006. The unauthorized city: Late colonial Lusaka and postcolonial geography. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 27, 289 – 308.
PADFIELD, R. 2011. Neoliberalism and the polarising water geographies of the Zambian Copperbelt. Waterlines, Volume 30, No. 2, pp. 150-164 (15)
MEREDITH, D., 1975. The British government and colonial economic policy, 1919 - 1939. The Economic History Review 28 (3), 484 – 499.
SARDANIS, A., 2003. Africa: Another side of the coin. London: I.B.Tauris.
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Rory Padfield
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
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