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Andean waterways : resource politics in highland Peru / Mattias Borg Rasmussen ; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rasmussen, Mattias Borg, author.
- Sivaramakrishnan, K., 1957- author of introduction, etc.
- Series:
- Culture, Place, and Nature : Studies in Anthropology and Environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water resources development--Political aspects--Peru--Blanca, Cordillera Region.
- Water resources development.
- Water resources development--Social aspects--Peru--Blanca, Cordillera Region.
- Water-supply--Political aspects--Peru--Blanca, Cordillera Region.
- Water-supply.
- Water-supply--Social aspects--Peru--Blanca, Cordillera Region.
- Climatic changes--Peru--Blanca, Cordillera Region.
- Climatic changes.
- Blanca, Cordillera Region (Peru)--Environmental conditions.
- Blanca, Cordillera Region (Peru).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Scattle, Washington ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Andean Waterways explores the politics of natural resource use in the Peruvian Andes in the context of climate change and neoliberal expansion. It does so through careful ethnographic analysis of the constitution of waterways, illustrating how water becomes entangled in a variety of political, social, and cultural concerns. Set in the highland town of Recuay in Ancash, the book traces the ways in which water affects political and ecological relations as glaciers recede. By looking at the shared waterways of four villages located in the foothills of Cordillera Blanca, it addresses pertinent questions concerning water governance and rural lives. This case study of water politics will be useful to anthropologists, resource managers, environmental policy makers, and other readers who are interested in the effects of environmental change on rural communities.Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voiLZkIWNU4
- Contents:
- Introduction : a sense of urgency
- Atoq Huacanca river : changing horizons
- Querococha 3 Bases channel : sharing the flow
- Shecllapata channel : maintaining the course
- Aconan channel : arranging infrastructure
- Santa River : defending life
- Outflow : time, place and the politics of water.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295806082
- 0295806087
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