The ethics of water : From commodification to common ownership / Cameron Fioret.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fioret, Cameron, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

In this global approach to climate change and freshwater access, Cameron Fioret explores the harmful effects of water commodification. Making use of deliberative democratic theory, Fioret suggests tools that can change the balance of democratic decision-making power by rethinking the governance of water more broadly. Five main case studies including Detroit, Cochabamba, and Kerala span four continents to convey the global and local scope of normative water issues. These examples draw on contemporary water justice movements to explore how anti-water-commodification struggles can utilize water recommoning practices to make water governance processes more deeply democratic. Highlighting the ethical and sociopolitical ramifications of water injustice, this study moves beyond the surface issue of distributional concerns. To this end, Fioret draws on research in democratic political theory and environmental philosophy to consider what right people have to water, the putative harms of privatizing and commodifying water, common ownership, and legal protections, alongside local and transnational political activism. In navigating these pressing issues, The Ethics of Water provides a searing analysis of water commodification and political domination today.

Contents:

1 Introduction

1.1 Preface

1.2.1 Methodology

1.2.2 The book as engaged philosophy and non-ideal theory

1.2.3 Description of the chapters herein

1.3 Do people have a right to water? An analysis and explication of the existing literature on the ethics of water commodification

1.4 The author's argument

2 Water, Rights-based Arguments and Social Entitlement

2.1 Current representative views on water ownership,and the putative harms of water commodification

2.2 The water commons, and a tension in recommoning

2.3 Water and the question of commodification

2.4 The harms of water commodification

2.5 Harms and property: where to go from here?

3 An Explication of Common Ownership and Common Territory

3.1 Path dependencies and commodification

3.2.1 Common ownership

3.2.2 Common ownership and the tragedy of the commons

3.2.3 Commons control in relation to self-governance and state-governance

3.3 Common ownership, common territory and deliberative democracy as complementary

3.4 Conclusion

4 Water Justice as Socioenvironmental Justice

4.1.1 Water justice as socioenvironmental justice

4.1.2 Participatory water justice: the importance of recognition and inclusion

4.1.3 Difficulties of democratizing water justice: social movements, recognition and human rights

4.2 The political harm of water injustice: the weakening of democracy

4.3 Conclusion

5 The Protection of Rights to Water Through Law, Politics and Social Movements

5.1 Social movements as protections for rights to water

5.2 Democracy, resistance and water recommoning

5.3 Resistance and violence

5.4 Conclusion

6 Conclusion

6.1 Synopsis of arguments and conclusions

6..2 Water ethics and justice going forward

6.3 Final thoughts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350348820

1350348821

9781350348837

135034883X

9781350348813

1350348813

OCLC:

1373343037