Water: A Critical Introduction

Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Foundations
	Chapter 1: The Hydrosocial Cycle
		The Month of Big Rains
		The Hydrosocial Cycle
		Knowledge is Power
		Scarcity is Made
		Water is Life
		Camp is Everywhere
		Summary and What’s Next
		Further Reading
	Chapter 2: Water and Empire
		Stillsuits and Spice
		Theories of Empire and Water
		Water at the Frontier
		Property, Race, and Caste
		Boundaries and Imperial Space
		Legacies of Empire
		Summary and What’s Next
		Further Reading
	Chapter 3: Legal Waters
		The Chilean Water Code
		Why Institutions Matter
		Water Rights (and Wrongs)
		Legal Pluralism
		Institutions in Action
		Does the Law Deliver Justice?
		A New Day for Chile
		Summary and What’s Next
		Further Reading
	Chapter 4: The Business of Water
		Paying for the Pipes
		Public or Private?
		State Failure?
		Privatization Debates
		New Frontiers of Financialization
		Streams of Revenue
		Uncooperative Waters?
		Summary and What’s Next
		Further Reading
Part 2: Big Waters
	Chapter 5: Eating Water
		How Much Water Do You Eat?
		The Water of Land Grabbing
		Cheap Food and Unsustainable Water Use
		Virtual Water Hegemony
		Closed Basins, Fragmented Rivers, and Empty Aquifers
		More Crop Per Drop, More Dollar Per Drop
		Summary and What’s Next
		Further Reading
	Chapter 6: Dam Fever
		A Fever Spreads
		Dams as Development
		Dams as Geopolitics
		The “Narmada Effect”
		The World Commission on Dams
		The Future of Dams
		Summary and What’s Next
		Further Reading
	Chapter 7: Shared Waters
		A River in “Crisis”
		The Myth of Water Wars
		Limits to Water Cooperation
		A Spectrum of Intensities
		Power and Hydro‐hegemony
		Water Diplomacy as Praxis
		The Future of Shared Waters
		Summary and What’s Next
		Further Reading
Part 3: Water is Life
	Chapter 8: Intimate Waters
		Citizenship and the Toilet
		The Work of Water
		From Citizen to “Consumer”
		“Here’s to Flint”
		Emotional Geographies of Water
		Take Back the Tap
		Summary and What’s Next
		Further Reading
	Chapter 9: The Right to Water
		Victory or Defeat?
		What is the Human Right to Water?
		Struggles in South Africa
		From South to North
		A Right to the Hydrosocial Cycle
		Rights Beyond the Human?
		The Right to Water as a Process
		Summary and What’s Next
		Further Reading
	Chapter 10: Future Waters
		At the Confluence of Change
		Stationarity is Dead
		Techno‐Fix 1: Desalination
		Techno‐Fix 2: Moving Water
		Techno‐Fix 3: Nature‐Based Solutions
		Techno‐Fix 4: Resilience
		Adapting to New Worlds
		A Mudlarkers’ Guide to the Future
		Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
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