The right to water
Subtitle: politics, governance and social struggles
By: [edited by] Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781849713597; 9781849713603; 9780203152102
Subjects: Right to water
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The right to water: possibilities and prospects / Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus; title: Commons versus commodities: debating the human right to water / Karen Bakker; title: The human right to what? water, rights, humans, and the relation of things / Jamie Linton; title: A right to water: geographico-legal perspectives / Chad Staddon, Tom Appleby and Evadne Grant; title: The political economy of the right to water: reinvigorating the question of property / Kyle Mitchell; title: Scarce or insecure? the right to water and the ethics of global water governance / Jeremy Schmidt; title: The right to water as the right to identity: legal struggles of indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New zealand / Jacinta Ruru; title: Legal protection of the right to water in the European Union / Marleen van Rijswick and Andrea Keessen; title: Rights, citizenship and territory: water politics in the West Bank / Ilaria Giglioli; title: Water rights and wrongs: illegality and informal use in Mexico and the U.S. / Katharine Meehan; title: The centrality of community participation to the realisation of the right to water: the illustrative case of South Africa / Cristy Clark; title: The right to the city and the eco-social commoning of water: discursive and political lessons from South Africa / Patrick Bond; title: Anti-privatization struggles and the right to water in India: engendering cultures of opposition / Krista Bywater; title: Seeing through the concept of water as a human right in bolivia / Rocio Bustamante; title: From Cochabamba to Colombia: travelling repertoires in Latin American water struggles / Verónica Perera.