The Pump Keeps on Running : On the emergence of water management institutions between state decentralization and local practices in northern Kunene

ISBN-13: 9783643908384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 466 str.

Diego Augusto Menestrey Schwieger

Opis

Based on his long-term anthropological fieldwork in the semiarid north of the Kunene region in Namibia, the author describes and analyzes how the local Otjiherero-speaking pastoralists govern water usage after a decentralization reform of the rural water sector in the country. This book will be of interest to academics, policymakers, and practitioners who seek to better understand how water management institutions emerge, particularly at the intersection of state decentralization reforms and local practices in the Kunene Region, but also elsewhere in the world. Dissertation. (Series: Cologne Ethnological Studies / Koelner ethnologische Studien, Vol. 36) Subject: African Studies, Drought Studies, Environmental Studies]

O autorze

Diego Augusto Menestrey Schwieger works currently as a lecturer at the Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne.