Peter Mollinga
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Prof. Dr. Peter Mollinga

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Affiliations
  • Professorial Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London, UK
  • Member International Advisory Board WIMEK (Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research) Graduate School, Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands
  • Member Advisory Board ERC Advanced Grant Prof. Dr Philippe Cullet, SOAS University of London “Addressing the Multi-scalar Dimensions of Sectoral Water Conflicts Through the Lens of Water Security: Lessons from South Asia”
Research topics
  • Water, infrastructure and political rule
  • Riverfront and floodplain development in India
  • Rethinking canal irrigation (reform) in India
Prof. Peter P. Mollinga comparatively researches water governance, policy and politics. His focus areas are canal irrigation and urban water in South Asia/India. His theoretical interests are 1) the cultural political economy of ‘imagineering’ in (urban) water infrastructure development and 2) applying political settlement theory in the analysis of canal irrigation (reform). He is an experienced project coordinator (EU Horizon 2020 grant 822730, 2019-2023 ‘Leaving something behind’ - Migration governance and agricultural & rural change in ‘home’ communities: comparative experience from Europe, Asia and Africa). He is also a founding editor of Water Alternatives. An interdisciplinary journal on water, politics and development. After his retirement as a Professor of Development Studies at SOAS in London, UK, in 2023, Prof. Mollinga continues to be a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS.
Selected publications

Mollinga, Peter P.  and  Pranjal Deekshit (2025) Performance, consumption and production: state governance and the uses and meanings of water in the Sardar Sarovar Project, Gujarat, India. ZEF Working Paper 241 and SOAS Global Development Working Paper 3, Bonn and London, ZEF Bonn University and SOAS University of London. https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/user_upload/ZEF_Workinf_Paper_No._241.pdf DOI: https:doi.org/10.25501/soas.00043782

Mollinga, Peter P. 2020. Knowledge, context and problemsheds. Critical realist method for interdisciplinary water studies. Water International 45:5, 388-415, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2020.1787617  

Suhardiman Diana and Peter P. Mollinga. 2017. Institutionalised corruption in Indonesian irrigation: An analysis of the upeti system. Development Policy Review 35(S2):O140-O159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12276 

Christine Bichsel, Peter P. Mollinga, Timothy Moss and Julia Obertreis (Guest editors and authors of introduction). 2016. Water, infrastructure and political rule: Introduction to the special issue. Water Alternatives 9(2): 168-181 https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/tp1-2/1894-vol9/301-issue9-2 URI: http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/22609/  

Mollinga, Peter P. 2014. Canal irrigation and the hydrosocial cycle. The morphogenesis of contested water control in the Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal, South India. Geoforum  57: 192-204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.05.011 


 

Peter Mollinga
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