Contesting Water Rights - Local, State, and Global Struggles

As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people's struggles for rights to water have intensified. In this context, this book examines the role of the ambivalent state in local struggles for water, which are deeply intertwined with global forums that support and/or challenge the privatization of water resources. These local-global struggles have redefined the relationships between the state, corporations, and other social actors that impact the local politics of inequality and marginalization.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Overview of Water Crisis and Early Approaches to Study of Water.- 2. Between Local Community Challenges and Global Concerns.- 3. Local Struggles for Water Rights.- 4. The Global Forums of Water.- 5. Conclusion: Policy Implications.

About the author

Mangala Subramaniam is Professor of Sociology and Butler Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence at Purdue University, USA. She is a leading scholar in the areas of gender and its intersections with caste and class, social movements, environmental justice, and globalization.

Summary

As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people’s struggles for rights to water have intensified. In this context, this book examines the role of the ambivalent state in local struggles for water, which are deeply intertwined with global forums that support and/or challenge the privatization of water resources. These local-global struggles have redefined the relationships between the state, corporations, and other social actors that impact the local politics of inequality and marginalization.

Product details

• Authors: Mangala Subramaniam
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030090395
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3009039-5
• No. of pages: 178
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 10 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 258 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 178 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Political sociology; Umwelt, B, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Sociology, Politik und Staat, Human Rights, Hydrologie und die Hydrosphäre, Water, Political Sociology, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Water Policy, The environment, Politics & government, auseinandersetzen, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Social Sciences, Environmental Management, Social Justice, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental management,, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Hydrology and the hydrosphere