Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity

Bringing together scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories. The articles in this book were first published in Water International.

1. Introduction: interweaving water struggles, institutions, and the making of territory Part I: Theories of the Hydrosocial and Water Equity 2. Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action 3. Hydrosocial territories: a political ecology perspective 4. What kind of governance for what kind of equity? Towards a theorization of justice in water governance 5. What is water equity? The unfortunate consequences of a global focus on 'drinking water' Part II: Water Governance 6. PES hydro-social territories: deterritorialization and repatterning of water control arenas in the Andean highlands 7. Losing the watershed focus: a look at complex community-managed irrigation systems in Bolivia 8. Examining the emerging role of groundwater in water inequity in India 9. The colonial roots of inequality: access to water in urban East Africa 10. Popular participation, equity, and co-production of water and sanitation services in Caracas, Venezuela 11. Creating equitable water institutions on disputed land: a Honduran case study 12. Democratizing discourses: conceptions of ownership, autonomy and 'the state' in Nicaragua's rural water governance 13. Adjudicating hydrosocial territory in New Mexico Part III: Hydrosocial Struggles 14. Downspout politics, upstream conflict: formalizing rainwater harvesting in the United States 15. Disputes over territorial boundaries and diverging valuation languages: the Santurban hydro-social highlands territory in Colombia 16. Diverting realities: how framing, values and water management are interwoven in the Albufera de Valencia wetland in Spain 17. Disputes over land and water rights in gold mining: the case of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico 18. Territorial pluralism: water users' multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador's highlands 19. Amazonian Hydrosociality: The Politics of Water Projects among the Waorani of Ecuador 20. Water scarcity and the exclusionary city: the struggle for water justice in Lima, Peru 21. Inclusive recognition politics and the struggle over 'hydro-social territories' in two Bolivian highland communities 22. Virtual water trade and the contestation of hydro-social territories 23. From Spain's hydro-deadlock to the desalination fix 24. Santa Cruz Declaration on the Global Water Crisis 25. Conclusion