Water, Governance, and Hegemony, Chris Sneddon
This chapter examines the rise of a variety of concepts—scarcity, marketization and participation— that have assumed hegemonic status within discourses and practices associated with water governance. The chapter’s aim is to provide a common frame of reference for how subsequent chapters treat the notion of hegemonic concept in the water governance sphere. It reviews some of the recent discussions regarding hegemony as applied to world politics and the governing of everyday life. There is genuine value in thinking carefully about the oftentimes hidden paths whereby “global”—in both its material and ideological sense—ideas and practices become universally applied.