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

Title
The right to water : politics, governance and social struggles / edited by Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus.
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Earthscan, 2012.

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
  • Loftus, Alex
  • Sultana, Farhana.
Description
xvii, 262 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
Right to water
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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 / Verónica Perera.
ISBN
  • 9781849713597 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1849713596 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781849713603 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 184971360X (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780203152102 (ebook)
  • 0203152107 (ebook)
LCCN
^^2011024261