Chapter 12

(Dis)connecting the flow, steering the waters: Building hegemonies and ‘private water’ in Zambia, 1930s to the present, Hillary Waters

This chapter examines four moments in Zambian history to argue hegemony is a dual process: bundling ideologies, institutions and context engenders power while representing water as isolated from this process provides hegemony the guise of objectivity. Investigating malaria control in the 1930s, the politics behind Kariba Dam’s placement in the 1950s, and corporate control of domestic urban water in both the colonial and neo-liberal era, this chapter shows that ‘private water’ is not as clear-cut or new as often portrayed. Hegemony’s dual process often clouds the ways politics, people, and economics dissolve within and simultaneously carve the waterscape.

 

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