The Social Life of Water by John R. Wagner , Berghahn Books

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Berghahn Books The Social Life of Water by John R. Wagner

Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with water, we develop institutions, technologies, and cultural practices entirely devoted to its appropriation and distribution, and through these institutions we construct relations of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. Relying on first-hand ethnographic research, the contributors to this volume examine the social life of water in diverse settings and explore the impacts of commodification, urbanization, and technology on the availability and quality of water supplies. Each case study speaks to a local set of issues, but the overall perspective is global, with representation from all continents._x000D_ Table of contents : - _x000D_ List of Figures_x000D_ _x000D_ List of Tables_x000D_ _x000D_ Notes on Contributors_x000D_ _x000D_ Acknowledgements_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Introduction_x000D_ _x000D_ John Richard Wagner_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part I: Commodification_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 1. Contesting Equivalences: Controversies over Water and Mining in Chile and Peru_x000D_ _x000D_ Fabiana Li_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 2. Dam Nation: Cubbie Station and the Waters of the Darling_x000D_ _x000D_ Veronica Strang_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 3. Water and Ill-being: Displaced People and Dam-based Development in India_x000D_ _x000D_ Lyla Mehta _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part II: Water and Technology_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 4. Aesthetics of a Relationship: Women and Water_x000D_ _x000D_ Nefissa Naguib_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 5. La Pila de San Juan: Historic Transformations of Water as a Public Symbol in Suchitoto, El Salvador_x000D_ _x000D_ Hugo De Burgos_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 6. Not so Boring. Assembling and Reassembling Groundwater Tales and Technologies from Malerkotla, Punjab_x000D_ _x000D_ Rita Brara_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 7. Kenyan Landscape, Identity and Access_x000D_ _x000D_ Swathi Veeravali_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part III: Urbanization_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 8. Health Challenges of Urban Poverty and Water Supply in Northern Ghana_x000D_ _x000D_ Issaka Kanton Osumanu_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 9. The Risk of Water: Dengue Prevention and Control in Urban Cambodia_x000D_ _x000D_ Sarah C. Smith_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 10. The Water Crisis in Ireland: The Socio-Political Contexts of Risk in Contemporary Society_x000D_ _x000D_ Liam Leonard_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part IV: Governance_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 11. Fairness and the Human Right to Water: A Preliminary Cross-cultural Theory_x000D_ _x000D_ Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis, Sveinn Sigurdsson, Rhian Stotts, and Abigail York_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 12. Indigenous Water Governance and Resistance: A Syilx Perspective_x000D_ _x000D_ Marlowe Sam and Jeannette Armstrong_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 13. Bureaucratic Bricolage and Adaptive Co-management in Indonesian Irrigation_x000D_ _x000D_ Bryan Bruns_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Chapter 14. Anthropological Insights into Stakeholder Participation in Water Management of the Edwards Aquifer in Texas_x000D_ _x000D_ John M. Donahue_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Index_x000D_