Watershed Politics and Climate Change in Peru (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Stensrud, Astrid B.

Pluto Press（2021/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780745340203
• DDC分類 333.91

Full Description

This book travels to the heart of power, inequality and injustice in water politics. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, Astrid B. Stensrud explores the impact of climate change and extractivist neoliberal policies - including Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), a global paradigm that views water as a finite resource in need of management.

Engaging with the many different actors and entities participating in the constitution of the watershed - from engineers, bureaucrats and farmers, to mountains, springs and canals - Stensrud shines light on different yet entangled water practices and water worlds and how both the watershed and our understanding of water itself have changed.

Challenging hegemonic understandings, the book moves beyond conventional perspectives of political ecology and political economy to achieve a decolonial perspective.

Contents

Maps and Figures

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

List of Words in Quechua and Spanish

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Water and Watershed Politics

1. Engineering Water Flows

2. Colonising the Desert

3. Water Payments

4. Water Uncertainties and Disasters

5. Water Efficiency

6. Legible and Illegible Water

7. Owning Water

Conclusion: Water Multiplicity

Notes

Bibliography

Index