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Knowledge, context and problemsheds: a critical realist method for interdisciplinary water studies (2020)
Journal Article
Mollinga, P. (2020). Knowledge, context and problemsheds: a critical realist method for interdisciplinary water studies. Water International, 45(5), 388-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2020.1787617

Understanding water issues as problemsheds addresses the narrowly water-centred framing of watershed and basin-focused water research and policy. In a critical realist approach problemshed also serves to identify the context-specificity of water know... Read More about Knowledge, context and problemsheds: a critical realist method for interdisciplinary water studies.

Cultural Political Economy and Critical Water Studies: An Introduction to the Special Themed Section (2019)
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Mollinga, P. (2019). Cultural Political Economy and Critical Water Studies: An Introduction to the Special Themed Section. Water alternatives, 12(3), 788-801

The attraction of taking a Cultural Political Economy (CPE) perspective in the analysis of questions related to water use, management and governance is threefold: (i) CPE is an effort to capture the multidimensionality of social dynamics by emphasisi... Read More about Cultural Political Economy and Critical Water Studies: An Introduction to the Special Themed Section.

Public Policy and the Idea of the Vietnamese State: The Cultural Political Economy of Domestic Water Supply (2015)
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Reis, N., & Mollinga, P. Public Policy and the Idea of the Vietnamese State: The Cultural Political Economy of Domestic Water Supply. Asian Studies Review, 39(4), 628-648. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2015.1082975

Using Rural Water Supply (RWS) policy practices as a case study, this article shows that the disjunction between implementation as formally conceived and informally practised is not a question of ineffective policy cycle dynamics, but rather an inher... Read More about Public Policy and the Idea of the Vietnamese State: The Cultural Political Economy of Domestic Water Supply.

Finding structure in diversity: A stepwise small-N/medium-N qualitative comparative analysis approach for water resources management research (2014)
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Mollinga, P., & Gondhalekar, D. (2014). Finding structure in diversity: A stepwise small-N/medium-N qualitative comparative analysis approach for water resources management research. Water alternatives, 7(1), 178-198

Drawing particularly on recent debates on, and development of, comparative methods in the field of comparative politics, the paper argues that stepwise small-N/medium-N qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a particularly suitable methodological... Read More about Finding structure in diversity: A stepwise small-N/medium-N qualitative comparative analysis approach for water resources management research.

Canal irrigation and the hydrosocial cycle. The morphogenesis of contested water control in the Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal, South India (2014)
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Mollinga, P. (2014). Canal irrigation and the hydrosocial cycle. The morphogenesis of contested water control in the Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal, South India. Geoforum, 57, 192-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.05.011

Using South Indian large-scale surface irrigation as a case, this paper combines emerging interdisciplinary conceptualisation in resource geography of the hydrological cycle as a hydrosocial cycle with Archer’s theorisation of society’s structure-age... Read More about Canal irrigation and the hydrosocial cycle. The morphogenesis of contested water control in the Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal, South India.

Lost in transition? The introduction of water users associations in Uzbekistan. (2013)
Journal Article
Veldwisch, G. J. A., & Mollinga, P. (2013). Lost in transition? The introduction of water users associations in Uzbekistan. Water International, 38(6), 758-773. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2013.833432

A “policy as process” perspective is adopted to analyze the early period of water users associations (WUAs) in Uzbekistan (2000–2006). The article is based on extensive
fieldwork (in 2005–2006) and analysis of policy and other relevant documents. It... Read More about Lost in transition? The introduction of water users associations in Uzbekistan..

Water Supply or ‘Beautiful Latrines’? Microcredit for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. (2012)
Journal Article
Reis, N., & Mollinga, P. (2012). Water Supply or ‘Beautiful Latrines’? Microcredit for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Südostasienwissenschaften, 5(1), 10-29. https://doi.org/10.4232/10.ASEAS-5.1-2

Around half of the Mekong Delta’s rural population lacks year-round access to clean water. In combination with inadequate hygiene and poor sanitation this creates a high risk of diseases. Microcredit schemes are a popular element in addressing such p... Read More about Water Supply or ‘Beautiful Latrines’? Microcredit for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam..

Correlations, Causes and the Logic of Obscuration: Donor Shaping of Dominant Narratives in Indonesia's Irrigation Development (2012)
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Suhardiman, D., & Mollinga, P. (2012). Correlations, Causes and the Logic of Obscuration: Donor Shaping of Dominant Narratives in Indonesia's Irrigation Development. The Journal of Development Studies, 48(7), 923-938. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2011.638052

This article analyses policy trends in Indonesian irrigation, particularly during the last five decades, from the perspective of dominant narratives, as authored, suggested and pushed by international donors. It argues that international donors' adhe... Read More about Correlations, Causes and the Logic of Obscuration: Donor Shaping of Dominant Narratives in Indonesia's Irrigation Development.

Transdisciplinary Innovation Research in Uzbekistan – one year of ‘Following The Innovation’ (2011)
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Hornidge, A.-K., Ul Hassan, M., & Mollinga, P. (2011). Transdisciplinary Innovation Research in Uzbekistan – one year of ‘Following The Innovation’. Development in Practice, 21(6), 834-847. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2011.582085

In 2008, a German-funded interdisciplinary research project in Khorezm province, Uzbekistan, initiated a participatory approach to innovation development and diffusion with local stakeholders. Selected agricultural innovations, developed by the proje... Read More about Transdisciplinary Innovation Research in Uzbekistan – one year of ‘Following The Innovation’.

The Socio-Technical Aspects of Water Management: Emerging Trends at Grass Roots Level in Uzbekistan (2010)
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Abdullaev, I., & Mollinga, P. (2010). The Socio-Technical Aspects of Water Management: Emerging Trends at Grass Roots Level in Uzbekistan. Water, 2(1), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.3390/w2010085

In Soviet times, water management was presented generally as a technical issue to be taken care of by the state water bureaucracy. Due to structural changes in agriculture in the two decades post-independence, irrigation water management has become a... Read More about The Socio-Technical Aspects of Water Management: Emerging Trends at Grass Roots Level in Uzbekistan.