Rutgerd Boelens: 2 books
Out of the Mainstream
Water Rights, Politics and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Water is not only a source of life and culture. It is also a source of power, conflicting interests and identity battles. Rights to materially access, culturally organize and politically control water resources are poorly understood by mainstream scientific approaches and hardly addressed by current...
Water, Power and Identity
The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence...