The social life of water / edited by John R. Wagner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wagner, John Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water--Economic aspects.

Water.

Water--Social aspects.

Water--Symbolic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 national

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I - Commodification; Chapter 1 - Contesting Equivalences: Controversies over Water and Mining in Peru and Chile; Chapter 2 - Dam Nation: Cubbie Station and the Waters of the Darling; Chapter 3 - Water and Ill-Being: Displaced People and Dam-Based Development in India; Part II - Water and Technology; Chapter 4 - Aesthetics of a Relationship: Women and Water; Chapter 5 - La Pila de San Juan: Historic Transformations of Water as a Public Symbol in Suchitoto, El Salvador

Chapter 6 - Not So Boring: Assembling and Reassembling Groundwater Tales and Technologies from Malerkotla, PunjabChapter 7 - Kenyan Landscape, Identity, and Access; Part III - Urbanization; Chapter 8 - Health Challenges of Urban Poverty and Water Supply in Northern Ghana; Chapter 9 - The Risk of Water: Dengue Prevention and Control in Urban Cambodia; Chapter 10 - The Water Crisis in Ireland: The Sociopolitical Contexts of Risk in Contemporary Society; Part IV - Governance; Chapter 11 - Fairness and the Human Right to Water: A Preliminary Cross-Cultural Theory

Chapter 12 - Indigenous Water Governance and Resistance: A Syilx PerspectiveChapter 13 - Bureaucratic Bricolage and Adaptive Comanagement in Indonesian Irrigation; Chapter 14 - Anthropological Insights into Stakeholder Participation in Water Management of the Edwards Aquifer in Texas; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780857459671

0857459678

OCLC:

859379851