Out of the mainstream : water rights, politics and identity / edited by Rutgerd Boelens, David Getches and Armando Guevara-Gil.
"Water is not only a source of life and culture. It is also a source of power, conflicting interests and identity battles. Rights to materially access, culturally organize and politically control water resources are poorly understood by mainstream scientific approaches and hardly addressed by c...
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO WATER RIGHTS, POWER, IDENTITY AND SOCIAL STRUGGLE: Water struggles and the politics of identity
- Water property relations and modern policy regimes: neoliberal utopia and the disempowerment of collective action
- The limits of state reform and multiculturalism in Latin America: contemporary illustrations
- A masculine world: the politics of gender and identity in irrigation expert thinking
- PART II: POLITICS OF IDENTITY AND ANDEAN LIVELIHOODS: Identity politics and indigenous movements in Andean history
- Cultural identity and indigenous water rights in the Andean highlands
- Land, water and the search for sustainable livelihood in the Andes
- PART III: TENSIONS AND MERGERS AMONG LOCAL WATER RIGHTS AND NATIONAL POLICIES: Water laws, collective rights and system diversity in the Andean countries
- Water rights and conflicts in an inter-Andean watershed: the Achamayo River Valley, JunnĖ, Peru
- Water rights, mining and indigenous groups in Chile's Atacama
- Indian water rights in conflict with state water rights: the case of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in Nevada, USA
- Acequias of the Southwestern United States in tension with state water laws
- Community-controlled codification of local resource tenure: an effective tool for defending local rights?
- PART IV: SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND GRASSROOTS STRATEGIES FOR WATER RIGHTS: Using international law to assert indigenous water rights
- Networking strategies and struggles for water control: from water wars to mobilizations for day-to-day water rights defence
- Federating and defending: water, territory and extraction in the Andes
- Conclusions: water rights, power and identity.