Hydro-imaginaries and the construction of the political geography of the Jordan River: The johnston mission, 1953-56

Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 218-245

  Alatout, Samer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904075442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (34)

1. Alatout, Samer. "Bringing Abundance into Environmental Politics: Constructing a Zionist Network of Abundance, Immigration, and Colonization, 1918-1949." Social Studies of Science 39, no. 3 (2009): 363-94.
2. -. "'States' of Scarcity: Water, Space, and Identity Politics in Israel, 1948-1959." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26, no. 6 (2008): 959-82.
3. -. "Water Balances in Palestine, Regional Cooperation, and the Politics of Numbers." In Water Balances in the Eastern Mediterranean, edited by David Brooks and Ozay Mehmet, 59-84. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2000.
4. Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. New York: Verso, 1983.
5. Arab Technical Committee. Arab Plan for the Utilization of the Waters of the River Jordan and Its Tributaries. Cairo: Arab Technical Committee, 1954 [in Arabic].
6. Clapp, Gordon. "Letter of Transmittal to the Director of the UNRWA." In C. T. Main, The Unified Development of the Water Resources of the Jordan Valley Region. Boston: Chas. T. Main, 1953.
7. Cotton, S. Plan for the Development of the Water Resources of the Jordan and Litani River Basins. Jerusalem: Water Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, 1954.
8. Egyptian Economic and Political Review (1955).
9. Ezrahi, Yaron. The Descent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
10. Ferguson, James. The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
11. Gieryn, Thomas. "Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists and on Boundary." American Sociological Review 48, no. 6 (1983): 781-95.
12. -. Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
13. Haddadin, Munther. Diplomacy on the Jordan: International Conflict and Negotiated Resolution. Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer Academic, 2001.
14. Harris, Leila. "Water and Conflict Geographies of the Southeastern Anatolia Project." Society and Natural Resources 15, no. 8 (2002): 743-59.
15. Harris, Leila, and Samer Alatout, "Negotiating Hydro-Scales, Forging States: Comparison of the Upper Tigris/Euphrates and Jordan River Basins." Political Geography 29, no. 3 (2010): 148-56.
16. Helmreich, Stefan. "Nature/Culture/Seawater." American Anthropologist 113, no. 1 (2011): 132-44.
17. Israel National Archives (INA) F3688-11; F3688-12.
18. Jasanoff, Sheila. The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1990.
19. -. Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
20. -, ed. States of Knowledge: The Co-production of Science and Social Order. New York: Routledge, 2004.
21. Kahhalah, S. Water Problem in Israel and Its Reflections on the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Beirut: Institute of Palestine Studies, 1980.
22. Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
23. Lindholm, Helena. "Water and the Arab-Israeli Conflict." In Hydropolitics: Conflicts over Water as a Development Constraint, edited by L. Ohlsson, 55-90. London: Zed Books, 1995.
24. Lowi, Miriam R. Water and Power: The Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
25. Main, C. T. The Unified Development of the Water Resources of the Jordan Valley Region. Knoxville: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1953.
26. McCaffrey, Stephen C. The Law in International Watercourses: Non-Navigational Uses. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
27. Sneddon, Christopher. "Water Conflict and River Basins: The Contradictions of Comanagement and Scale in Northeast Thailand." Society and Natural Resources 15, no. 8 (2002): 725-41.
28. Stevens, Georgiana. Jordan River Partition. Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1965.
29. United Nations. Israeli-Syrian General Armistice Agreement. New York: United Nations, 20 July 1949. Document number S/1353.
30. United Nations Economic Survey Mission. Final Report. New York: United Nations Publications, Document Number A/AC25/6/28, December 1949.
31. United States Department of State. Communiqué of 17 October 1953. Quoted in the Jerusalem Post, 18 October 1953, 18e.
32. -. Report on the Near East. Bulletin, Vol. 28, no. 729. Washington, D.C., 1953.
33. Wolf, Aaron T. "Guidelines for a Water-for-Peace Plan for the Jordan River Watershed." Natural Resources Journal 33, no. 3 (1993): 797-839.
34. -. Hydropolitics along the Jordan River: Scarce Water and Its Impact on the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1995.