Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey

Ramazan Caner Sayan, Arda Bilgen and Ayşegül Kibaroğlu

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Abstract: Moving beyond the purely material understanding of infrastructures, new perspectives in infrastructural regionalism assert that infrastructures and regions simultaneously shape each other. Drawing on this reciprocal relationship, we introduce the concept of ‘water regionalism’ to examine how regional factors, dynamics, and complexities shape water infrastructures, and how water infrastructures concurrently shape regions. Through qualitative research methodologies, we empirically demonstrate how this concept operates in practice by examining the history of regional planning and hydraulic infrastructure development in Turkey, particularly the process of how the South-eastern Anatolia Project (GAP) and the GAP region have shaped each other since the 1970s.

Keywords: Euphrates and Tigris Basin; GAP; Turkey; water infrastructure; critical infrastructure studies; regionalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2025-02-28
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Published in International Journal of Water Resources Development, 28, February, 2025, 41(3), pp. 540 - 562. ISSN: 0790-0627

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