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Water, Power and Identity

The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes

By: Rutgerd Boelens

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Water, Power and Identity

The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes

By: Rutgerd Boelens

This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence of State-/market-based water governance, and confront coercive and participatory boundary policing (‘normal’ vs. ‘abnormal’). The book examines grassroots building of multi-layered water-rights territories, and State, market and expert networks’ vigorous efforts to reshape these water societies in their own image – seizing resources and/or aligning users, identities and rights systems within dominant frameworks. Distributive and cultural politics entwine. It is shown that attempts to modernize and normalize users through universalized water culture, ‘rational water use’ and de-politicized interventions deepen water security problems rather than alleviating them. However, social struggles negotiate and enforce water rights. User collectives challenge imposed water rights and identities, constructing new ones to strategically acquire water control autonomy and re-moralize their waterscapes. The author shows that battles for material control include the right to culturally define and politically organize water rights and territories. Andean illustrations from Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile, from peasant-indigenous life stories to international policy-making, highlight open and subsurface hydro-social networks. They reveal how water justice struggles are political projects against indifference, and that engaging in re-distributive policies and defying ‘truth politics,’ extends context-particular water rights definitions and governance forms.

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Routledge

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1317964039

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9781317964032

Liquid Relations

Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity

By: Dik Roth,Rutgerd Boelens,Margreet Zwarteveen

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Liquid Relations

Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity

By: Dik Roth,Rutgerd Boelens,Margreet Zwarteveen

Water management plays an increasingly critical role in national and international policy agendas. Growing scarcity, overuse, and pollution, combined with burgeoning demand, have made socio-political and economic conflicts almost unavoidable. Proposals to address water shortages are usually based on two key assumptions: (1) water is a commodity that can be bought and sold and (2) “states,” or other centralized entities, should control access to water. Liquid Relations criticizes these assumptions from a socio-legal perspective. Eleven case studies examine laws, distribution, and irrigation in regions around the world, including the United States, Nepal, Indonesia, Chile, Ecuador, India, and South Africa. In each case, problems are shown to be both ecological and human-made. The essays also consider the ways that gender, ethnicity, and class differences influence water rights and control. In the concluding chapter, the editors draw on the essays’ findings to offer an alternative approach to water rights and water governance issues. By showing how issues like water scarcity and competition are embedded in specific resource use and management histories, this volume highlights the need for analyses and solutions that are context-specific rather than universal.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813537843

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9780813537849

Liquid Relations

Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity

By: Dik Roth,Rutgerd Boelens,Margreet Zwarteveen

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Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity

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Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity

Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle

By: Ben Crow,Jaime Hoogesteger,Flora Lu,Erik Swyngedouw,Jeroen Vos

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Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity

Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle

By: Ben Crow,Jaime Hoogesteger,Flora Lu,Erik Swyngedouw,Jeroen Vos

Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories. Hydrosocial territories are spatial configurations of people, institutions, water flows, hydraulic technology and the biophysical environment that revolve around the control of water. Territorial politics finds expression in encounters of diverse actors with divergent spatial and politicaĺ--geographical interests; as a result, water (in)justice and (in)equity are embedded in these socio-ecological contexts. The territory-building projections and strategies compete, superimpose and align to strengthen specific water-control claims of various interests. As a result, actors continuously recompose the territorý';s hydraulic grid, cultural reference frames, and politicaĺ--economic relationships. Using a political ecology focus, the different contributions to this book explore territorial struggles, demonstrating that these contestations are not merely skirmishes over natural resources, but battles over meaning, norms, knowledge, identity, authority and discourses.The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Water International. "--Provided by publisher.

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1315267632

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