The Politics of Fresh Water: Access, Conflict and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780367227722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 244 str.

Catherine M. Ashcraft; Tamar Mayer

Opis

This volume discusses the politics of the freshwater crisis, specifically how access to water is determined in different regions and historical periods, how conflict is constructed and managed, and how identity and efforts to control water systems, through development, technologies, and institutions, shape one another.

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1. The Politics of Fresh Water: Setting the Stage  Tamar Mayer and Catherine M. Ashcraft  2. Ancient Roman Water Rights and Commons Theory  Cynthia J. Bannon  3. Legal Mobilization and the Politics of Water Pollution: The Case of the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin in Argentina  Daniel Ryan and Andrés Napoli  4. Does River Basin Governance Mean Wider Access to River Management? A Long-term Perspective from the Tennessee, Columbia, and Connecticut Rivers  Eve Vogel  5. Shifting Currents in Water Diplomacy: Negotiating Conflict in the Danube and Nile River Basins  Catherine M. Ashcraft  6. The Era of Big Dam Building: It ain’t Over ‘til it’s Over  Francis J. Magilligan, Chris S. Sneddon, and Coleen A. Fox  7. Oil and Water Don’t Mix: Impacts of Oil and Gas Development on Sakhalin’s Water Resources  Jessica K. Graybill  8. The Plight of New Zealand’s Watersheds  Michael Vincent McGinnis  9. Cultural Water Wars: Power and Hegemony in the Semiotics of Water  David Groenfeldt  10. Theorizing Gender, Ethnic Difference, and Inequality in Relation to Water Access and Politics in Southeastern Turkey  Leila M. Harris  11. Water, Life, and Community in the Arid Realm: The Curious Case of Karez and Acequia  Daanish Mustafa  12. The Politics of Muddled Waters in Gujarat: A Religious Nationalist Development Model’s Treatment of Water  Pushpa Iyer  13. In Hidden View: How Water became a Catalyst for Indigenous Farmworker Resistance in Baja California, Mexico  Marcos López  14. From Management to Governance: Rethinking Water Policy and Privatization on Easter Island  Maria Alessandra Woolson  15. Strange Waters: From Confluence to Vortex in the Los Angeles Basin  T. S. McMillin