This book examines how recent reforms of decentralization, privatization and commercialization are initiated and implemented with regard to water management in Khartoum. In so doing, it uses the prism of water to gain insights into Sudanese (water) politics, power strategies and state-society relationships. Drawing on detailed, actor-oriented and ethnographic analyses based on political ecology and on organization sociology, the main findings develop important aspects of rule and emphasize the relevance of studying local, micropolitical contexts in order to understand macropolitical dynamics.
