Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South (eBook, PDF)

Scarcity, Marketization and Participation
Redaktion: Harris, Leila M.; Sneddon, Christopher; Goldin, Jacqueline A.

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Produktbeschreibung

The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar-over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions. These issues present tremendous challenges for water governance.

This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally-scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation. It provides a historical and contextual overview of each of these ideas as they have emerged in global and regional policy and governance circles and pairs these with in-depth case studies that examine manifestations and contestations of water governance internationally.

The book interrogates ideas of water crisis and scarcity in the context of bio-physical, political, social and environmental landscapes to better understand how ideas and practices linked to scarcity and crisis take hold, and become entrenched in policy and practice. The book also investigates ideas of marketization and privatization, increasingly prominent features of water governance throughout the global South, with particular attention to the varied implementation and effects of these governance practices. The final section of the volume analyzes participatory water governance, querying the disconnects between global discourses and local realities, particularly as they intersect with the other themes of interest to the volume.

Promoting a view of changing water governance that links across these themes and in relation to contemporary realities, the book is invaluable for students, researchers, advocates, and policy makers interested in water governance challenges facing the developing world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135125059
• Artikelnr.: 39041864

Autorenporträt

Leila M. Harris is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and in the Institute for Gender, Race and Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She is also Co-Director of the Program on Water Governance (PoWG). Her work focuses on nature-society questions including inequality and environment and political ecology, particularly through investigation of water politics, access, and governance in the Global South. Jacqueline Goldin is the SADC WaterNet Chair for Water and Society and Associate Professor at the Institute for Water Studies, University of the Western Cape where she heads the Anthropology of Water (AoW) Research Group. The research group focuses on food and water security and the interface between human and ecosystem well-being, with attention to institutional settings as mediators between people and nature. Chris Sneddon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College. His research and teaching focus on conflicts over water at multiple spatial scales, with a primary regional focus on the Mekong River basin of Southeast Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Interrogating Hegemonic Discourses in Water Governance
Jacqueline A Goldin
Christopher Sneddon and Leila Harris 2. Water
Governance
and Hegemony
Jacqueline Christopher Sneddon 3. Hegemonic Concepts and Water Governance from a Scientific-Engineering Perspective
Lawrence A. Baker 4. Producing Crisis: Hegemonic Debates and Mediations and Representations of Water Scarity
Basil Mahayni 5. Tensions in Narratives and Lived Realities of Water Crisis in Damascus
Basil Mahayni 6. Abundance and Scarcity Amidst the Criss of 'Modern Water': Changing Water- Engergy Nexus in Turkey
Sinan Erensu 7. Water Scarcity and the Colonial State: The Emergence of a Hydraulic Bureaucracy in South-Western Matebeleland
Zimbabwe
1964-1972
Muchaparara Musemwa 8. Water Life? An Agent of Political Space and Protest? An Instrument of Hegemony?
Uygar Özesmi 9. Water Security in Late-Modernity
Samer Alatout 10. Framing the Debate on Water Marketization
Leila Harris 11. Variable Histories and Geographies of Marketization and Privatization
Leila Harris 12. (Dis)connecting the Flow
Steering the Waters: Building Hegemonies and 'Private Water' in Zambia
1930s to the Present
Hilary Waters 13. Privatisation of the Urban Water Supply in Kenya: Policy Framework for Pro-Poor Provision
O A K'Akumu 14. Privatisation
Marketization
Commoditization As Dominant Themes in Water Governance: A response
Shiney Varghese 15. Hegemony Does Not Imply Homogeneity: Thoughts on the Marketization and Privatization of Water
Karen Bakker 16. The Participatory Paradigm: Anathema
Praise and Confusion
Jacqueline Goldin 17. Who is a Water User? The Politics of Gender in Egypt's Water User Associations
Jessica Barnes 18. Problems and Prospects for Genuine Participation in Water Governance in Turkey
Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu And Ekin Kurtic 19. Participation's Limits: Tracing the Contours of Participatory Water Governance in Accra
Ghana
Cynthia Morinville And Leila M. Harris 20. Reclaiming Global Citizenship: A Perspective From Catalonial Water Justice Activists
Annelies Broekman 21. Participation
Water And The Edges Of Capitalism
Eric Sheppard 22. Placing Hegemony: Water Governance Concepts And Their Discontents
Christopher Sneddon
Leila Harris And Jacqueline A. Goldin