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The right to water : politics, governance and social struggles / edited by Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Earthscan, ©2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 262 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781849713603 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781849713597 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780203152102 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 346.0432 RIG
Contents:
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The right to water : possibilities and prospects / Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus -- Commons versus commodities: debating the human right to water / Karen Bakker -- The human right to what? water, rights, humans, and the relation of things / Jamie Linton -- A right to water? Geographico-legal perspectives / Chad Staddon, Tom Appleby and Evadne Grant -- The political economy of the right to water : reinvigorating the question of property / Kyle Mitchell -- Scarce or insecure? The right to water and the ethics of global water governance / Jeremy Schmidt -- The right to water as the right to identity : legal struggles of indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New zealand / Jacinta Ruru -- Legal protection of the right to water in the European Union / Marleen van Rijswick and Andrea Keessen -- Rights, citizenship and territory : water politics in the West Bank / Ilaria Giglioli -- Water rights and wrongs : illegality and informal use in Mexico and the U.S. / Katharine Meehan -- The centrality of community participation to the realisation of the right to water : the illustrative case of South Africa / Cristy Clark -- The right to the city and the eco-social commoning of water : discursive and political lessons from South Africa / Patrick Bond -- Anti-privatization struggles and the right to water in India : engendering cultures of opposition / Krista Bywater -- Seeing through the concept of water as a human right in Bolivia / Rocio Bustamante -- From Cochabamba to Colombia : travelling repertoires in Latin American water struggles / Ver�onica Perera.

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