Papers

Below is a decently comprehensive list of publications. You can find the links to the PDFs, whenever available, in my Google Scholar profile, which is also updated more regulalry than this page (last updated: February 2024)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  1. Menga, F. and Vanolo, A. 2024. “Sustainability and impossible worlds.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
  2. Menga, F., Rusca, M. and Alba, R. (2023). Philantrocapitalism and the re-making of global water charity. Geoforum, 144: 103788
  3. Hughes, A. C., Tougeron, K., Martin, D. A., Menga, F., Rosado, B. H., Villasante, S., … & do Couto, E. V. (2023). Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al.(2023). Biological Conservation.
  4. Hughes A.C., Tougeron K., Martin D.A., Menga F., Rosado B.H.P., Villasante S., Madgulkar S., Gonçalves F., Geneletti D., Diele-Viegas L.M., Berger S., Colla S.R., de Andrade Kamimura V., Caggiano H., Melo F., de Oliveira Dias M.G., Kellner E. & do Couto E.V., 2023. Smaller human populations are neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for biodiversity conservation. Biological Conservation (in press). DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109841
  5. Menga, F. and Goodman, M. 2022. “The High Priests of Global Development: Capitalism, Religion and the Political Economy of Sacrifice in a Celebrity-led Water Charity“. Development and Change (online first)
  6. Nolan. C., Delabre, I, Menga. F. and Goodman, M. 2022. “Double Exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: A study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier”. Ecology & Society, 27(1), pp. 1-13.
  7. Atkins, E. and Menga, F. 2021. “Populist Ecologies”. Area (online first).
  8. Nolan. C., Goodman, M., and Menga. F., 2020. “In the shadows of power: the infrastructural violence of thermal power generation in Ghana’s coastal commodity frontier”. Journal of Political Ecology, 27(1), pp. 775-794.
  9. Pak, M., Menga, F., Feuer, D. and Dowell, A. 2020. “State-Run Media Outlets in Central Asia: External Regime Legitimation Through Regional Conflict and Cooperation Framing”. Central Asian Survey, 39(3), pp. 378-397.
  10. Menga, F., and Davies, D., 2020. “Apocalypse yesterday: posthumanism and comics in the Anthropocene”. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 3(3), pp. 663-687.
  11. Menga, F., 2020. “Researchers in the panopticon? Geographies of research, fieldwork and authoritarianism”. The Geographical Review, 110(3), pp. 341-357.
  12. Ženko, M. and Menga, F., 2019. “Linking Water Scarcity to Mental Health: Hydro–Social Interruptions in the Lake Urmia Basin, Iran”. Water 11(5).
  13. Rusca, M., dos Santos T., Menga F., Mirumachi N., Schwartz K., Hordijk M., 2019. “Space, state-building and the hydraulic mission:  Crafting the Mozambican State”. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(5), pp. 868-888.
  14. Hussein, H., Menga, F., Greco, F., 2018. “Monitoring Transboundary Water Cooperation in SDG 6.5.2: How a Critical Hydropolitics Approach Can Spot Inequitable Outcomes”. Sustainability, 10(10), 3640.
  15. Menga, F., 2018. “Bigger is better, or how governments learned to stop worrying and love megaprojects”. Studies of Transition States and Societies, 10(1), pp. 3-14.
  16. Menga, F., 2017. “Hydropolis: Reinterpreting the polis in water politics”. Political Geography, 60, pp. 100-109.
  17. Zinzani, A. and Menga, F., 2017. “The Circle of Hydro-Hegemony Between Riparian States, Development Policies and Borderlands: Evidence From the Talas Waterscape (Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan)”. Geoforum, 85, pp. 112-121.
  18. Warner, J., Mirumachi, N., Farnum, R., Grandi, M., Menga, F., Zeitoun, M., 2017. “Transboundary ‘hydro-hegemony’: 10 years later”. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 4(6), pp. 1-13.
  19. Zeitoun, M., Cascão, A.E., Warner, J., Mirumachi, N., Matthews, N., Menga, F., Farnum, R., 2017. “Transboundary Water Interaction III: Contest and Compliance”. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 17(2), pp. 271-294.
  20. Menga, F., 2016. “Domestic and international dimensions of transboundary water politics”. Water Alternatives, 9(3), pp. 704-723.
  21. Menga, F. and Mirumachi, N., 2016. “Fostering Tajik hydraulic development: Examining the role of soft power in the case of the Rogun Dam”. Water Alternatives, 9(2), pp. 373-388.
  22. Menga, F., 2016. “Reconceptualizing Hegemony: The Circle of Hydro-Hegemony”. Water Policy, 18(2), pp. 401-418.
  23. Menga, F., 2015. “Building a nation through a dam: the case of Rogun in Tajikistan”. Nationalities Papers, 43 (3), pp. 479-494.

Journal Special Issues

  1. Menga, F. (convener), 2021, Virtual Forum: Populist ecologies: Nature, nationalism, and authoritarianism, Political Geography, https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/political-geography/special-issue/10R2GGCJ1SQ.
  2. Heitmeyer, C. and Menga F. (eds.), 2015, “Special issue on science, technology and the nation”, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 15(3).

Book chapters and conference proceedings

  1. Menga, F. and Swyngedouw, E., 2018. “States of Water”. In: Menga, F. and Swyngedouw, E. (Eds.), Water, Technology and the Nation-State. London: Routledge Earthscan, pp. 1-18.
  2. Menga, F., 2016. “Public construction and nation-building in Tajikistan”. In: Isaacs, R. and Polese, A. (Eds.), Nation-building and Identity in the post-Soviet Space: New tools and approaches. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 193-205.
  3. Menga, F., 2016. “The “Water Relations in Central Asia Dataset” (WRCAD): An online tool for researchers, practitioners and students”. Eurasiatica: Quaderni di Studi su Balcani, Anatolia, Iran, Caucaso e Asia Centrale, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, vol. 6, pp. 185-201.
  4. Menga, F., 2016. “Lo sfruttamento delle risorse idriche in Asia centrale”. In: Bellezza S. A. (ed.), Atlante dello spazio post-sovietico: Confini e conflitti. Brescia: Editrice La Scuola, pp. 169-174.
  5. Menga, F., 2015. “Constructing a dam nation? Considerations on the Rogun Dam in Tajikistan”. In: Heine, H.C. (ed.), Under Construction: Building the Material and the Imagined World. Berlin: Lit Verlag, pp. 109-122.
  6. Menga, F., 2013. “Regional Water Dialogue in a Changing Political Environment: The Amu Darya Basin”. Romanian Review of Eurasian Studies, Year IX, Nr. 1-2/2013, pp. 221-238.
  7. Menga, F., 2012. “Water agreements in Central Asia: an overview”. In: Proceedings of the 14th IP-Seminar Geography of Water, July, 15 -25, 2011. Cagliari, CUEC.
  8. Burigo, L., Kucerova, D. and Menga, F., 2012. “Workshop report: Facing climate change and desertification: the case of the network of reservoirs in inner Sardinia”. In: Proceedings of the 14th IP-Seminar Geography of Water, July, 15 -25, 2011. Cagliari, CUEC.

Editorials and public dissemination

  1. Menga, F., Bennett, M. M.; Coddington, K., Ehrkamp, P., Enns, C., Nagel, C., Vradis, A., Walther, O. J. 2024. “Care, continuity, and meaningful change.” Political Geography, 108.
  2. Menga, F. 2023. “Il futuro dell’acqua.” ISPI Longread. 1 August 2023.
  3. Review of “Meehan, K.; Mirumachi, N.; Loftus, A. and Akhter, M. 2023. Water: A critical introduction. John Wiley & Sons” for the journal Water Alternatives, https://water-alternatives.org/index.php/boh/item/352-intro.
  4. Ehrkamp, P., Bennett, M. M., Enns, C., Grove, K., Menga, F., Vradis, A., & Walther, O. J. 2023. “Small steps.” Political Geography, 102821-102821.
  5. Menga, F., “Il nesso strategico fra populismo, nazionalismo e risorse idriche”. RIEnergia, 29 March 2022.
  6. Grove, K., Benjaminsen, T.A., Costalli, S., Menga, F., Peters, K., Nagel, C. and Vradis, 2022. A. “To forty more years of Political Geography”. Political Geography, 92.
  7. Menga, F., 2021. Virtual Forum introduction: Populist ecologies: Nature, nationalism, and authoritarianism. Political Geography, 91.
  8. Grove, K., Peters, K., Nagel, C., Benjaminsen, T.A., Costalli, S., Menga, F. and Vradis, A. “Making time in 2020”. Political Geography, 84.
  9. Ženko, M. and Menga, F., 2020. “There is no future here”: the psychological burden of water scarcity”. Undisciplined Environments, 9 December 2020.
  10. Menga, F., 2020. “Water insecurity across borders: a case study of the Aral Sea basin”. Geography Review, 34(1), pp. 28-31.
  11. Benjaminsen, T.A., Costalli, S., Grove, K., Menga, F., Nagel, C., Peters, K. and Vradis, A., 2020.” Political geography in and for 2020”. Political Geography.
  12. Benjaminsen, T.A., Costalli, S., Grove, K., Menga, F., Nagel, C., Peters, K. and Vradis, A., 2020. “Making and breaking boundaries in times of transition”. Political Geography, 76.
  13. Benjaminsen, T.A., Costalli, S., Grove, K., McConnell, F., Menga, F., Steinberg, P.E. and Vradis, A., 2019. “Beyond bibliometrics”. Political Geography, 68, pp. A1-A2.
  14. Asryan, A., Baialieva, G., Cassara, M., Doerre, A., Féaux de la Croix, J., Menga, F., Samakov, A. and Weiss, A, 2018. “Actors, Approaches and Cooperation Related to Water Management and Natural Hazards Under Climate Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus”. Thematic Input Paper 2 in preparation of the Regional Seminar “Managing Disaster Risks and Water under Climate Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus” organised by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Khorog, Tajikistan, 17-23 September 2018.
  15. Asryan, A., Baialieva, G., Cassara, M., Doerre, A., Féaux de la Croix, J., Menga, F., Samakov, A. and Weiss, A, 2018. “Pathways to sustainable solutions to manage water and reduce disaster risks under climate change in Central Asia and the Caucasus”. Thematic Input Paper 3 in preparation of the Regional Seminar “Managing Disaster Risks and Water under Climate Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus” organised by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Khorog, Tajikistan, 17-23 September 2018
  16. Fantini, E., Menga, F. and Cascão, A., 2017. “A conversation about Gramsci on the Nile”. Entitle blog – a collaborative writing project on political ecology, 21 December 2017.
  17. Menga, F. and the LWRG, 2016. “Major Water Disputes Are Often Beyond War and Peace”. New Security Beat, the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, 19 September 2016.
  18. Menga, F., 2016. “Transboundary water politics as processes: the ‘circle of hydro-hegemony’”. International Water Association Publishing, June 2016.
  19. Menga, F., 2016. “Dams as Centaurs”. Strife Journal, Special Series on Water Security, 23 March 2016.
  20. Menga, F., 2015. “Arguments over water will not lead to war in Central Asia”. The Conway Bulletin, Issue No 232 (May 20): 2.
  21. Menga, F., 2015. “Il nesso acqua – energia in Asia Centrale”. Eurasian Business Dispatch, Issue No 3 (January).

Encyclopedia Entries

  1. Menga, F., 2023. “Populist Ecologies”. In International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology (eds D. Richardson, N. Castree, M.F. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu and R.A. Marston). Wiley.
  2. Menga, F., 2016. “Kazakhstan”. In: Joseph, P. (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopaedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, pp. 937-939.
  3. Menga, F., 2016. “Kyrgyzstan”. In: Joseph, P. (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopaedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, pp. 961-963.
  4. Menga, F., 2016. “Turkmenistan”. In: Joseph, P. (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopaedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, pp. 1729-1731.
  5. Menga, F., 2016. “Uzbekistan”. In: Joseph, P. (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopaedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, pp. 1785-1787.