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Out of the Mainstream - Water Rights, Politics and Identity (Paperback)
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Out of the Mainstream - Water Rights, Politics and Identity (Paperback)
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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 normative frameworks.
These issues become even more challenging when law and
policy-makers and dominant power groups try to grasp, contain and
handle them in multicultural societies. The struggles over the
uses, meanings and appropriation of water are especially
well-illustrated in Andean communities and local water systems of
Peru, Chile, Ecuador, and Bolivia, as well as in Native American
communities in south-western USA. The problem is that throughout
history, these nation-states have attempted to 'civilize' and bring
into the mainstream the different cultures and peoples within their
borders instead of understanding 'context' and harnessing the
strengths and potentials of diversity. This book examines the
multi-scale struggles for cultural justice and socio-economic
re-distribution that arise as Latin American communities and user
federations seek access to water resources and decision-making
power regarding their control and management. It is set in the
dynamic context of unequal, globalizing power relations, politics
of scale and identity, environmental encroachment and the
increasing presence of extractive industries that are creating
additional pressures on local livelihoods. While much of the focus
of the book is on the Andean Region, a number of comparative
chapters are also included. These address issues such as water
rights and defence strategies in neighbouring countries and those
of Native American people in the southern USA, as well as state
reform and multi-culturalism across Latin and Native America and
the use of international standards in struggles for indigenous
water rights. This book shows that, against all odds, people are
actively contesting neoliberal globalization and water power plays.
In doing so, they construct new, hybrid water rights systems,
livelihoods, cultures and hydro-political networks, and dynamically
challenge the mainstream powers and politics.
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