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The End of Cheap Water Hydro-Capitalism in Mindy McGinnis Not a Drop to Drink (2013)

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To save your life and stay alive you have to use your power and hegemony over others. Explaining the connection between human activities and the web of life and how human activity has led to climate change which in turn has led to water scarcity thus leading to privatization of water, this paper aims to show social unrest arousing from hydro-capitalism, unveiling how third world countries face a lot of struggles out of their poor resources and how the powerful humiliates the powerless, the West imperializes the East and the self subjugates the other. This study joins water scarcity and its privatization in a speculative hydro-fiction text to the dominant features of biopower, hydro-capitalism and imperialism. Analyzing Mindy's narrative text Not a Drop to Drink, this paper shows the problem of ruling Western paradigm and discourse, like capitalocene and how water scarcity may drive the overwhelming powers of a society to conquer and subjugate the other; the weak. In addition, the study examines the dam projects which are integral to the thrilling hydrological regimes of independence in several post-colonial countries, like the Aswan Dam in Egypt and the Grand Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, shedding light on the biospheric turning point during the 21st century in which the forces of nature are extended to affect the output of human being activities.

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10.21608/opde.2022.249927

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hydrofiction, capitalocene, hydropower, Dams, water trauma, war

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Alyaa Mustafa

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Saad

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78

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1

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35739

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2022-04-01

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2022-07-20

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2022-04-01

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23

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48

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1110-2721

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2735-3591

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CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education

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The End of Cheap Water Hydro-Capitalism in Mindy McGinnis Not a Drop to Drink (2013)

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22 Jan 2023