Andean Waterways : Resource Politics in Highland Peru (Culture, Place, and Natureculture, Place, and Natureculture, Place, and Natureculture, Place, and Natureculture, Place, and Natureandean Waterways)

Rasmussen, Mattias Borg/ Sivaramakrishnan, K. (EDT)

University of Washington Press（2015/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780295994932
• DDC分類 333.91620985

Full Description

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.

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Contents

Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: A Sense of Urgency

1. Atoq Huacanca River: Changing Horizons

2. Querococha 3 Bases Channel: Sharing the Flow

3. Shecllapata Channel: Maintaining the Course

4. Aconan Channel: Arranging Infrastructure

5. Santa River: Defending Life

Outflow: Time, Place, and the Politics of Water

Notes

Reference List

Index