Water, knowledge, and hydro-politics in the Indus: challenging scales of (de-)politicization

King’s Water scholar Majed Akhter and colleague Abdul Aijaz published a new paper this month that challenges perspectives on water governance and calls for “great greater attention to the politics of knowledge—especially the depoliticizing impulse of technocratic knowledge—in the history and politics of river basins,” specifically in the Indus. “We argue that there exists a …