Problems and Prospects for Genuine Participation in Water Governance in Turkey, Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu and Ekin Kurtic
This chapter focuses on hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) and the decentralization of irrigation in Turkey to explore whether there is participation of local communities in the processes of decision-making and implementation. We find that the question of participation lies at the heart of the hegemony in water governance from a different angle in HPPs and irrigation: while in the former participation is performed by the rural communities who refuse to participate in the HPP construction processes and leads to challenge of the hegemonic discourses and practices, in the latter participation is used as a key tool to construct and legitimize hegemonic water governance.