Kim Geheb is a geographer and Senior Researcher at the Center for International Forestry Research-The World Agroforestry Center. His research interests focus on the political ecologies, and the management and governance of natural resources systems. He is based in Nairobi, Kenya.Diana Suhardiman is a professor of natural resource governance, climate and equity at Leiden University and director at KITLV. Putting power and politics central in the contemporary struggles of natural resource governance, her most recent research looks at grassroots climate governance in Southeast Asia, where she focuses on the politics of knowledge (re)production processes in various socio-ecological systems. Her research looks at various forms of knowledge (re)production processes including through unconventional knowledge systems and other ways of knowing, embedded in lived experience, memories, and the arts.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcronyms, abbreviations and initialisationsChapter 1. The bliss of development: Mekong hydropolitics and the power of narrative - Kim Geheb and Diana SuhardimanChapter 2. Hydropolitics in the Mekong: the role of Chinese subnational governments - Hongzhou Zhang, Kim Geheb and Genevieve Donnellon-MayChapter 3. Situating the mandate of the Mekong River Commission within a changing hydrosocial territory and regional order - Ming Li YongChapter 4. Revisiting the interplay between water management and adaptation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: a political ecology perspective - Thong Anh Tran and Le Anh TuanChapter 5. Hydrocorruption: water, politics, hydropower and the state in Laos - Danzig SoperaChapter 6. A Karen approach to grassroots state formation: shaping territories of life - Saw John Bright, Diana Suhardiman, Casper Palmano and Kim GehebChapter 7. Placing and connecting the Mekong River Commission's sand discourses - Jean-François Rousseau and Tony DinhChapter 8. The political ecologies of managing Cambodia's Tonle Sap fisheries - Mak Sithirith and Kim GehebChapter 9. Voicing the Mekong: listening to humans, rivers, and spirits in the politics of hydropower - Kanokwan Manorom and Kim GehebChapter 10. Biophysical geopolitics and hydro-social relations in the environmental geopolitics of the Mekong Basin - Carl Grundy-WarrChapter 11. The political geographies of Mekong River Basin hydropower development – a reflection - Ian BairdBibliographyAcknowledgementsAbout the authorsIndex

Kim Geheb is a geographer and Senior Researcher at the Center for International Forestry Research-The World Agroforestry Center. His research interests focus on the political ecologies, and the management and governance of natural resources systems. He is based in Nairobi, Kenya.Diana Suhardiman is a professor of natural resource governance, climate and equity at Leiden University and director at KITLV. Putting power and politics central in the contemporary struggles of natural resource governance, her most recent research looks at grassroots climate governance in Southeast Asia, where she focuses on the politics of knowledge (re)production processes in various socio-ecological systems. Her research looks at various forms of knowledge (re)production processes including through unconventional knowledge systems and other ways of knowing, embedded in lived experience, memories, and the arts.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcronyms, abbreviations and initialisationsChapter 1. The bliss of development: Mekong hydropolitics and the power of narrative - Kim Geheb and Diana SuhardimanChapter 2. Hydropolitics in the Mekong: the role of Chinese subnational governments - Hongzhou Zhang, Kim Geheb and Genevieve Donnellon-MayChapter 3. Situating the mandate of the Mekong River Commission within a changing hydrosocial territory and regional order - Ming Li YongChapter 4. Revisiting the interplay between water management and adaptation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: a political ecology perspective - Thong Anh Tran and Le Anh TuanChapter 5. Hydrocorruption: water, politics, hydropower and the state in Laos - Danzig SoperaChapter 6. A Karen approach to grassroots state formation: shaping territories of life - Saw John Bright, Diana Suhardiman, Casper Palmano and Kim GehebChapter 7. Placing and connecting the Mekong River Commission's sand discourses - Jean-François Rousseau and Tony DinhChapter 8. The political ecologies of managing Cambodia's Tonle Sap fisheries - Mak Sithirith and Kim GehebChapter 9. Voicing the Mekong: listening to humans, rivers, and spirits in the politics of hydropower - Kanokwan Manorom and Kim GehebChapter 10. Biophysical geopolitics and hydro-social relations in the environmental geopolitics of the Mekong Basin - Carl Grundy-WarrChapter 11. The political geographies of Mekong River Basin hydropower development – a reflection - Ian BairdBibliographyAcknowledgementsAbout the authorsIndex

Kim Geheb is a geographer and Senior Researcher at the Center for International Forestry Research-The World Agroforestry Center. His research interests focus on the political ecologies, and the management and governance of natural resources systems. He is based in Nairobi, Kenya.Diana Suhardiman is a professor of natural resource governance, climate and equity at Leiden University and director at KITLV. Putting power and politics central in the contemporary struggles of natural resource governance, her most recent research looks at grassroots climate governance in Southeast Asia, where she focuses on the politics of knowledge (re)production processes in various socio-ecological systems. Her research looks at various forms of knowledge (re)production processes including through unconventional knowledge systems and other ways of knowing, embedded in lived experience, memories, and the arts.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcronyms, abbreviations and initialisationsChapter 1. The bliss of development: Mekong hydropolitics and the power of narrative - Kim Geheb and Diana SuhardimanChapter 2. Hydropolitics in the Mekong: the role of Chinese subnational governments - Hongzhou Zhang, Kim Geheb and Genevieve Donnellon-MayChapter 3. Situating the mandate of the Mekong River Commission within a changing hydrosocial territory and regional order - Ming Li YongChapter 4. Revisiting the interplay between water management and adaptation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: a political ecology perspective - Thong Anh Tran and Le Anh TuanChapter 5. Hydrocorruption: water, politics, hydropower and the state in Laos - Danzig SoperaChapter 6. A Karen approach to grassroots state formation: shaping territories of life - Saw John Bright, Diana Suhardiman, Casper Palmano and Kim GehebChapter 7. Placing and connecting the Mekong River Commission's sand discourses - Jean-François Rousseau and Tony DinhChapter 8. The political ecologies of managing Cambodia's Tonle Sap fisheries - Mak Sithirith and Kim GehebChapter 9. Voicing the Mekong: listening to humans, rivers, and spirits in the politics of hydropower - Kanokwan Manorom and Kim GehebChapter 10. Biophysical geopolitics and hydro-social relations in the environmental geopolitics of the Mekong Basin - Carl Grundy-WarrChapter 11. The political geographies of Mekong River Basin hydropower development – a reflection - Ian BairdBibliographyAcknowledgementsAbout the authorsIndex