The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social StrugglesFarhana Sultana, Alex Loftus The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a crucial moment into the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political, geographic and socio-economics contexts, seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics. The Right to Water engages with a range of approaches that focus on philosophical, legal and governance perspectives before seeking to apply these more abstract arguments to an array of concrete struggles and case studies. In so doing, the book builds on empirical examples from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and the European Union. |
Contents
Debating the human right to water | |
The human right to what? Water rights humans and the relation of things | |
A right to water? Geographicolegal perspectives | |
Reinvigorating the question | |
Scarce or insecure? The right to water and the ethics of global water | |
Legal struggles of indigenous | |
Water politics in the West Bank | |
Illegality and informal use in Mexico and the U | |
The centrality of community participation to the realization of the right | |
The right to the city and the ecosocial commoning of water Discursive | |
Engendering | |
Seeing through the concept of water as a human right in Bolivia | |
Travelling repertoires in Latin American | |
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The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles Farhana Sultana,Alex Loftus Limited preview - 2013 |
The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles Farhana Sultana,Alex Loftus No preview available - 2012 |
The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles Farhana Sultana,Alex Loftus No preview available - 2012 |