Langbeschreibung
This book addresses the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites. Andean illustrations from Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile reveal how water justice struggles are political projects against indifference, and that engaging in re-distributive policies and defying 'truth politics,' extends context-particular water rights definitions and governance forms.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Water Control Battlefields 2. Water Rights in Collectively Managed Andean Systems 3. Regimes of Waters Truth: Interdisciplinarity, Domains of Water Control and Hydro-social Cycle Politics 4. Embeddedness of Water Control in the Andean Peasant Economy 5. The Hydro-Politics of Identity: Coercive and Capillary Powers 6. Panoptic Power and the Moralization of Water Control Technology 7. Expertocratizing Local Water Rights 8. Neoliberalizing Collective Water Rights and Spaces of Resistance 9. Resistance as 'Con-fusion': Mimesis, Mimicry and Contesting the Dream Scheme 10. Conclusions and Reflections: Powers of Illusion and Forces of Con-fusion