Right to Water Politics, Governance and Social Struggles

Name: Right to Water Politics, Governance and Social Struggles
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ISBN: 9781849713597

ISBN-10: 1849713596

ISBN-13: 9781849713597

Edition: 2012

Authors: Farhana Sultana, Alex Loftus

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The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. This book elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 11/23/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of figures


List of tables


List of contributors


Preface


Foreword




The right to water: prospects and possibilities




Commons versus commodities: debating the human right to water




The human right to what? Water, rights, humans, and the relation of things




A right to water? Geographico-legal perspectives




The political economy of the right to water: reinvigorating the question of property




Scarce or insecure? The right to water and the ethics of global water governance




The right to water as the right to identity: legal struggles of indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand




Legal protection of the right to water in the European Union




Rights, citizenship and territory: water politics in the West Bank




Water rights and wrongs: illegality and informal use in Mexico and the U.S.




The centrality of community participation to the realization of the right to water: the illustrative case of South Africa




The right to the city and the eco-social commoning of water: discursive and political lessons from South Africa




Anti-privatization struggles and the right to water in India: engendering cultures of opposition




Seeing through the concept of water as a human right in Bolivia




From Cochabamba to Colombia: travelling repertoires in Latin American water struggles



Index