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| DOI | 10.1177/2399654418816700 |
| The USSR as a hydraulic society: Wittfogel, the Aral Sea and the (post-)Soviet state | |
| Wheeler, William | |
| 通讯作者 | Wheeler, William |
| 来源期刊 | ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-POLITICS AND SPACE
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| ISSN | 2399-6544 |
| EISSN | 2399-6552 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 卷号 | 37期号:7页码:1217-1234 |
| 英文摘要 | Wittfogel's Oriental Despotism is not only a scholarly exposition of the 'hydraulic hypothesis' but also a political polemic about Soviet 'totalitarianism'. Wittfogel does not mention that these two themes are connected: the USSR itself may be construed as a hydraulic state, especially in the Central Asian periphery, where expansion of irrigation depended on and cemented the power of the apparatus. The environmental consequences famously include the regression of the Aral Sea. This article first explores irrigation in Soviet Central Asia: while there was a connection between the centralizing tendency of Soviet bureaucracy and water's susceptibility to political control, environmental problems were exacerbated by relatively weak control from the centre and by material qualities of water which escaped control. I then draw on my ethnographic research in Aral'sk, Kazakhstan, to examine the role of hydraulic infrastructure in imagining the strong, centralized state. I take Wittfogel's particular constellation of connections between water, infrastructure and power as a Cold War artefact, which I compare with accounts of Soviet hydraulic projects from inhabitants of the Aral region today. Finally, I examine post-Soviet projections of statehood through a recent dam which has restored part of the Aral and mixed local reactions to it. Hydraulic infrastructure may project centralized authority, but I show that readings of the relationship between the two depend on contextual factors. |
| 英文关键词 | Aral Sea Kazakhstan infrastructure post-Soviet Wittfogel |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | England |
| 开放获取类型 | Green Submitted |
| 收录类别 | SSCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000485920200005 |
| WOS关键词 | IRRIGATION ; POLITICS ; CANALS ; OASIS ; RULE |
| WOS类目 | Environmental Studies ; Geography ; Regional & Urban Planning ; Public Administration |
| WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography ; Public Administration |
| EI主题词 | 2019-11-01 |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/310457 |
| 作者单位 | Univ Manchester, Dept Social Anthropol, Manchester, Lancs, England |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wheeler, William. The USSR as a hydraulic society: Wittfogel, the Aral Sea and the (post-)Soviet state[J],2019,37(7):1217-1234. |
| APA | Wheeler, William.(2019).The USSR as a hydraulic society: Wittfogel, the Aral Sea and the (post-)Soviet state.ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-POLITICS AND SPACE,37(7),1217-1234. |
| MLA | Wheeler, William."The USSR as a hydraulic society: Wittfogel, the Aral Sea and the (post-)Soviet state".ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-POLITICS AND SPACE 37.7(2019):1217-1234. |
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