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Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey

Caner Sayan Orcid Logo, Arda Bilgen, Ayşegül Kibaroğlu

International Journal of Water Resources Development, Volume: 41, Issue: 3, Pages: 540 - 562

Swansea University Author: Caner Sayan Orcid Logo

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Moving beyond the purely material understanding of infrastructures, new perspectives in infrastructural regionalism assert that infrastructures and regions simultaneously shape each other. Drawing on this reciprocal relationship, we introduce the concept of ‘water regionalism’ to examine how regiona...

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Published in: International Journal of Water Resources Development
ISSN: 0790-0627 1360-0648
Published: Informa UK Limited 2024
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