Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water (Earthscan Water Text)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
1. The right to water in a global context: challenges and transformations in water politics
	Introduction
	Institutional questions: whither the state?
	Water security discourses
	Articulating race/class/indigeneity/coloniality
	Translating the right to water from the South to the North
	Conclusion
	References
2. Valuing water: rights, resilience, and the UN High-Level Panel on Water
	Introduction
	The non-contingent nature of human rights
	The contingent world of resilience
	Value and the UN High-Level Panel on Water
	Water and a “right to have rights”
	References
3. Making space for practical authority: policy formalization and the right to water in Mexico
	A new challenge
	Institutionalizing the human right to water in Latin America
	Making space for practical authority in Mexico
	Expert pressure
	Hedging
	Practical experimentation
	Conclusion
	References
4. Turning to traditions: three cultural-religious articulations of fresh waters’ value(s) in contemporary governance frameworks
	Introduction: cultural-religious traditions and plural waters
	Mni wiconi: Standing Rock
	Ma-ori advocacy for the Whanganui of Aotearoa
	Declarations and their discontents
	The Catholic Church: universality without geography
	Conclusion
	References
5. The right to bring waters into being
	Introduction
	The ontological turn and multiple ontologies of water
	Political ontology
	The right to (enact) water
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6. The rights to water and food: exploring the synergies
	Introduction
	The Right to Food (RTF)
	The Right to Water (RTW)
	Latent potentials within General Comment 15
	Convergences and possible tensions
	Bridging the rights
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
7. Water-security capabilities and the human right to water
	Introduction
	The emergence of a water-capabilities approach
	Water-security capabilities approach and revisioning the human right to water
	Equity and water-security capabilities approach
	Directions forward
	Acknowledgments
	References
8. Rights on the edge of the city: realizing of the right to water in informal settlements in Bolivia
	Reconciling state-sanctioned rights and local struggles for water
	Informality is the urban reality
	Water provision in Cochabamba: a patchwork of formal and informal providers
	Fuzzy laws, emerging rights, and tenacious community organizations
	Poor city planning thwarted by informal urbanization
	Decentralization legitimises informal community providers
	The ripple effects of the Water War
	Reforming the sector around the right to water
	Grassroots struggles shape rights
	How to progressively reorder state-citizen relationships around rights
	Notes
	References
9. Human right to water and bottled water consumption: governing at the intersection of water justice, rights and ethics
	Introduction
	Accumulation by dispossession and water as a political and economic resource: a political-economy examination of bottled water
	The ethics of bottled water consumption and production: a water injustice framework
	Packaged water production and consumption in disaster vs. everyday contexts
	Conclusions: what are the implications of the human right to water in the case of bottled water consumption?
	Notes
	References
10. Against the trend: structure and agency in the struggle for public water in Europe
	Introduction
	Structure and agency in the struggle over public water
	Water privatization and the structuring conditions in the global political economy
	Agency of resistance in the struggle over water
	Fighting for public water against the background of economic crisis
	Water and the potential for transformation
	References
11. Remunicipalization and the human right to water: a signifier half full?
	Introduction
	Remunicipalization and the human right to water
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
12. Citizen mobilization for water: the case of Thessaloniki, Greece
	Introduction
	The Greek crisis and water service privatization in Thessaloniki and Athens
	Resistance and the rise of social movements
	Who wins, who loses? (and what?)
	Discussion and conclusions
	Notes
	References
13. Race, austerity and water justice in the United States: fighting for the human right to water in Detroit and Flint, Michigan
	Introduction
	Background to the crises
	Emergency management and the finacialization of urban governance
	Equality
	Non-discrimination and non-retrogression
	The appropriate role of the state
	Financialization, water and the right to the city
	Note
	References
14. Class, race, space and the “right to sanitation”: the limits of neoliberal toilet technologies in Durban, South Africa
	Introduction: the “right to sanitation” without water
	Durban’s “perfect toilet”
	The economics of the “neoliberal loo,” seen from above
	The imperfect toilet, seen from below
	Conclusion: eco-rhetorics and class realities
	Notes
	References
Index