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Performance, consumption and production: state governance and the uses and meanings of water in the Sardar Sarovar Project, Gujarat, India (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Mollinga, P. M., & Deekshit, P. (2025). Performance, consumption and production: state governance and the uses and meanings of water in the Sardar Sarovar Project, Gujarat, India. Bonn and London

This paper analyses the performative, consumptive and productive uses and meanings of water in and of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), a large dam with reservoir on the Narmada river, located at the border of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh States, India... Read More about Performance, consumption and production: state governance and the uses and meanings of water in the Sardar Sarovar Project, Gujarat, India.

Migration governance and agrarian and rural development: Comparative lessons from China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand (2023)
Report
Lamba, A., Sugden, F., Aderghal, M., Fengbo, C., Pagogna, R., Masotti, M., Dessalegn, M., Murzakulova, A., Kharel, A., Lahoucine, A., Stirba, V., Kuznetsova, I., Vittuari, M., Jian, C., Crivellaro, F., Naruchaikusol, S., Lucasenco, E., Mogilevskii, R., Mollinga, P., Phalkey, N., & Bhattarai, S. (2023). Migration governance and agrarian and rural development: Comparative lessons from China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand

The purpose of this policy brief is to draw together key comparative lessons on different types of migration governance interventions in the AGRUMIG project research regions and examine how they support positive feedback loops between migration and a... Read More about Migration governance and agrarian and rural development: Comparative lessons from China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand.

Making sense of diversity in agrarian and rural change outcomes of labor out-migration through comparative analysis: First lessons from China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand (2023)
Report
Mollinga, P., Lamba, A., Aderghal, M., Amzil, L., Dessalegn, M., Masotti, M., Murzakulova, A., Kharel, A., Sugden, F., Pagogna, R., Fengbo, C., & Jian, C. (2023). Making sense of diversity in agrarian and rural change outcomes of labor out-migration through comparative analysis: First lessons from China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand

Understanding how Laikipian households in Kenya move, stay connected and adapt through a political ecology of rural-urban livelihoods (2023)
Thesis
Sturridge, C. Understanding how Laikipian households in Kenya move, stay connected and adapt through a political ecology of rural-urban livelihoods. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis asks to what extent do rural-urban livelihoods build the adaptive capacity of households experiencing a mix of natural and societal pressures and opportunities in Laikipia County, Kenya. It addresses the question of how people move, stay... Read More about Understanding how Laikipian households in Kenya move, stay connected and adapt through a political ecology of rural-urban livelihoods.

Towards a multi-dimensional model of impact evaluation quality: assessing development impact evaluation methods with respect to context (2022)
Thesis
Juden, M. T. Towards a multi-dimensional model of impact evaluation quality: assessing development impact evaluation methods with respect to context. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In this thesis, I give an account of the quality of (quasi-)experimental impact evaluation methods for development interventions that goes beyond internal validity considerations to also incorporate the transferability of findings to new contexts. To... Read More about Towards a multi-dimensional model of impact evaluation quality: assessing development impact evaluation methods with respect to context.

Water aid and trade contradictions: Dutch aid in the Mozambican waterscape under contemporary capitalism (2021)
Thesis
Büscher, C. Water aid and trade contradictions: Dutch aid in the Mozambican waterscape under contemporary capitalism. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In 2013, the Dutch government adopted its ‘aid, trade and investment agenda’, commonly known as the ‘aid and trade agenda’. This thesis examines the application of this agenda and its forerunner in the Mozambican waterscape and how it has reproduced... Read More about Water aid and trade contradictions: Dutch aid in the Mozambican waterscape under contemporary capitalism.

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)
Journal Article
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.

Gender, Migration and Rural Livelihoods in Uzbekistan in Times of Change (2017)
Book Chapter
Nizamedinkhodjayeva, N., Bock, B., & Mollinga, P. (2017). Gender, Migration and Rural Livelihoods in Uzbekistan in Times of Change. In B. Bock, & S. Shortall (Eds.), Gender and Rural Globalization: International Perspectives on Gender and Rural Development (34-51). Cabi

Public Policy and the Idea of the Vietnamese State: The Cultural Political Economy of Domestic Water Supply (2015)
Journal Article
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.

Caught in a web – Travails of a Machine Tractor Park in Khorezm, Uzbekistan (2015)
Book Chapter
Mollinga, P. (2015). Caught in a web – Travails of a Machine Tractor Park in Khorezm, Uzbekistan. In J. P. A. Lamers, A. Khamzina, I. Rudenko, & P. L. G. Vlek (Eds.), Restructuring land allocation, water use and agricultural value chains. Technologies, policies and practices for the lower Amudarya region (317-340). V and R Unipress; Bonn University Press