Overview
- Focuses on several very timely subjects, including water rights, globalization, and privatization
- 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
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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.
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Book Title: Contesting Water Rights
Book Subtitle: Local, State, and Global Struggles
Authors: Mangala Subramaniam
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74627-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74626-5Published: 24 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09039-5Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74627-2Published: 21 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 178
Topics: Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management