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Water Politics and Political Culture

Turkey’s compatibility with the European Union

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Onur Oktem

    1. Wellington, New Zealand

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  • Examines and demonstrates how Turkish water bureaucracy works

  • Gives a unique historical and cultural account of the bureaucratic system

  • Critically assesses the engineering discipline through political and cultural frameworks

  • Provides a new perspective analyzing the relationship between Turkish state and its citizens

  • Uses social constructivism as a meta-theory for critically assessing the taken for granted aspects of Turkish water management

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Onur Oktem
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Social Construction of Water Management and Political Culture

    • Onur Oktem
    Pages 15-32

  4. IWRM as a Social Construct

    • Onur Oktem
    Pages 33-52

  5. Political Culture of Turkish Water Bureaucracy

    • Onur Oktem
    Pages 53-97

  6. Water Transfers and Turkish Political Culture: Melen Case

    • Onur Oktem
    Pages 99-126

  7. Comparing Political Cultures of Turkey and Spain

    • Onur Oktem
    Pages 127-151

  8. Conclusion

    • Onur Oktem
    Pages 153-161

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 163-182
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This book presents an analysis of the main traits of the Turkish political culture and articulates some of the most important deeply embedded social qualifications of political life in Turkey. It reveals that when water management is historically and socially shaped by heavily technical knowledge systems of engineering it becomes a particularly useful tool for various political interests. The book analyses how Turkish freshwater management is socially constructed as both an engineering discourse and a paternalistic bureaucratic transaction. Such a construction stands in stark contrast to the water management discourse of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Union’s common water policy. Of all the issues faced in Turkish water management, none are as important and problematic as the issue of complying with European Union (EU) accession criteria. Not only is water socially, economically and environmentally important; its water management is a useful prism through which the EU accession process can be viewed as a whole. It showcases the complementarities and divergences between Turkish and EU bureaucratic constructs and value systems.   

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