The social life of water / edited by John Richard. Wagner
- Published:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 313 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Wagner, John Richard
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Commodification -- ch. 1 Contesting Equivalences: Controversies over Water and Mining in Peru and Chile / Fabiana Li -- ch. 2 Dam Nation: Cubbie Station and the Waters of the Darling / Veronica Strang -- ch. 3 Water and Ill-Being: Displaced People and Dam-Based Development in India / Lyla Mehta -- pt. II Water and Technology -- ch. 4 Aesthetics of a Relationship: Women and Water / Nefissa Naguib -- ch. 5 La Pila de San Juan: Historic Transformations of Water as a Public Symbol in Suchitoto, El Salvador / Hugo De Burgos -- ch. 6 Not So Boring: Assembling and Reassembling Groundwater Tales and Technologies from Malerkotla, Punjab / Rita Brara -- ch. 7 Kenyan Landscape, Identity, and Access / Swathi Veeravalli -- pt. III Urbanization -- ch. 8 Health Challenges of Urban Poverty and Water Supply in Northern Ghana / Issaka Kanton Osumanu -- ch. 9 The Risk of Water: Dengue Prevention and Control in Urban Cambodia / Sarah C. Smith -- ch. 10 The Water Crisis in Ireland: The Sociopolitical Contexts of Risk in Contemporary Society / Liam Leonard -- pt. IV Governance -- ch. 11 Fairness and the Human Right to Water: A Preliminary Cross-Cultural Theory / Abigail York -- ch. 12 Indigenous Water Governance and Resistance: A Syilx Perspective / Jeannette Armstrong -- ch. 13 Bureaucratic Bricolage and Adaptive Comanagement in Indonesian Irrigation / Bryan Bruns -- ch. 14 Anthropological Insights into Stakeholder Participation in Water Management of the Edwards Aquifer in Texas / John M. Donahue.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780857459664 (hardback : alk. paper)
085745966X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780857459671 (institutional ebook) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2013
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