Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics - Softcover

 
9783039215607: Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3039215604 ISBN 13: 9783039215607
Publisher: Mdpi AG, 2019

Synopsis

This republished Special Issue highlights recent and emergent concepts and approaches to water governance that re-centers the political in relation to water-related decision making, use, and management. To do so at once is to focus on diverse ontologies, meanings and values of water, and related contestations regarding its use, or its importance for livelihoods, identity, or place-making. Building on insights from science and technology studies, feminist, and postcolonial approaches, we engage broadly with the ways that water-related decision making is often depoliticized and evacuated of political content or meaning—and to what effect. Key themes that emerged from the contributions include the politics of water infrastructure and insecurity; participatory politics and multi-scalar governance dynamics; politics related to emergent technologies of water (bottled or packaged water, and water desalination); and Indigenous water governance.

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Publisher
Mdpi AG
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3039215604
ISBN 13 
9783039215607
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
334
Editor
Harris Leila M, Shah Sameer H, Wilson Nicole J