The Fluvial Imagination

On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy

Colin Hoag

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University of California Press
18 January 2023

Ethnic studies; Anthropology; Politics & government; Conservation of the environment

Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics

"Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world's first ""water-exporting country"" when it signed a 1986 treaty with its powerful neighbor. An elaborate network of dams and tunnels now carries water to Johannesburg, the subcontinent's water-stressed economic epicenter. Hopes that receipts from water sales could improve Lesotho's fortunes, however, have clashed with fears that soil erosion from overgrazing livestock could fill its reservoirs with sediment. In this wide-ranging and deeply researched book, Colin Hoag shows how producing water commodities incites a fluvial imagination. Engineering water security for urban South Africa draws attention ever further into Lesotho's rural upstream catchments: from reservoirs to the soils and vegetation above them, and even to the social lives of herders at remote livestock posts. As we enter our planet's water-export era, Lesotho exposes the possibilities and perils ahead."

By: Colin Hoag
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 12
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520386341
ISBN 10: 0520386345
Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 18 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Colin Hoag is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Smith College.

Reviews for The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy

"""Overall, the book was a fascinating read and source of discussion in our classroom. An approach to constructing an ethnography of a landscape spoke to the issues of environmental change in the Anthropocene so central to our current crisis."" * African Journal of Range and Forage Science *"