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DOI	10.1177/25148486241254922
	The destructive work of restoration: Fishing communities facing territorialization in Turag river
	Huq, Efadul; Azaz, Mohammad
发表日期	2024
ISSN	2514-8486
EISSN	2514-8494
英文摘要	Urban river restoration efforts are growing worldwide. Along with restoring and conserving rivers, riverside land is slated for public recreation, property development, and infrastructure for adaptation to climate change. Riverine landscapes, embedded in larger watershed ecosystems and claimed by multiple communities, are sites of contested planning in contemporary cities. In this paper, we advance the scholarship on contestation over control and access of urban rivers and floodplains by analyzing the role of river restorative legislation and water-centered planning in managing Turag, an urban river in Bangladesh. While river degradation in urbanizing regions is often ascribed to lack of regulatory controls and enforcement, we argue that restorative legislation and interventions facilitate Turag River's ecocide by processes of territorialization. Territorialization refers to the co-constitutive dynamics of river restorative legislations and interventions as well as planned infrastructure and land use changes, which erase and displace river-based communities with reciprocal relations to the river. Riverine livelihoods and lifemaking, among fishing and farming communities in the case of Turag, are erased from planning and restoration practices, and are consequently expelled from the expanding city. Drawing on qualitative and counter-cartographic investigation of one severely polluted urban river in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we show how territorialization materializes through five co-constitutive dynamics involving environmental legislation, encroachment reporting, river demarcation, encroachment evictions, and wetland to land conversions. We draw out critical implications of how river restoration can be just and advance a riverine urbanism.
英文关键词	Urban political ecology; environmental politics; urbanization; environmental justice
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography
WOS类目	Environmental Studies ; Geography
WOS记录号	WOS:001228125200001
来源期刊	ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/297911
作者单位	Smith College
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Huq, Efadul,Azaz, Mohammad. The destructive work of restoration: Fishing communities facing territorialization in Turag river[J],2024.
APA	Huq, Efadul,&Azaz, Mohammad.(2024).The destructive work of restoration: Fishing communities facing territorialization in Turag river.ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE.
MLA	Huq, Efadul,et al."The destructive work of restoration: Fishing communities facing territorialization in Turag river".ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE (2024).