Contesting Water Rights

Focused on several very timely subjects, including water rights, globalization, and privatization/neoliberal trends in resource management

Takes a unique, multi-scalar, multi-level approach to investigating the contestations surrounding water rights, addressing the local, state, and transnational levels and how they interact

Features a surprisingly diverse range of case studies, spanning across India and the United States, which showcase how the processes of privatization are being resisted in similar ways across the globe

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

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.