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

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Other Authors: Sultana, Farhana, Loftus, Alex
Language:English
Published: Milton Parl, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Earthscan/Routledge, [2012], ©2012.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Earthscan water text series.
Subjects:
Right to water.
Menschenrecht.
Ressourcenpolitik.
Sozialer Konflikt.
Trinkwasserversorgung.
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Table of contents
Physical Description:xvii, 262 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.