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Discovering Political Ecology: Gustav Cederlöf, Alex Loftus Discovering Political Ecology
Gustav Cederlöf, Alex Loftus
R1,100 Discovery Miles 11 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Explicity incorporates diverse voices, from feminist political ecology and non-western scholarship in particular, in an introductory text. Existing texts tend to put a disproportionate emphasis on canonical voices. Differs from existing texts by embracing non-human subjects more readily. The organisation and coverage of the chapters is clear and compelling, with a good balance between theoretical and thematic areas of the field. Inclusive of more varied content, e.g. on urbanisation (the Robbins book notoriously covers little urban grounds) and on the virtual.

Discovering Political Ecology: Gustav Cederlöf, Alex Loftus Discovering Political Ecology
Gustav Cederlöf, Alex Loftus
R3,873 Discovery Miles 38 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Explicity incorporates diverse voices, from feminist political ecology and non-western scholarship in particular, in an introductory text. Existing texts tend to put a disproportionate emphasis on canonical voices. Differs from existing texts by embracing non-human subjects more readily. The organisation and coverage of the chapters is clear and compelling, with a good balance between theoretical and thematic areas of the field. Inclusive of more varied content, e.g. on urbanisation (the Robbins book notoriously covers little urban grounds) and on the virtual.

The Right to Water - Politics, Governance and Social Struggles (Hardcover): Farhana Sultana, Alex Loftus The Right to Water - Politics, Governance and Social Struggles (Hardcover)
Farhana Sultana, Alex Loftus
R4,175 Discovery Miles 41 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a crucial moment into the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political, geographic and socio-economics contexts, seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics. The Right to Water engages with a range of approaches that focus on philosophical, legal and governance perspectives before seeking to apply these more abstract arguments to an array of concrete struggles and case studies. In so doing, the book builds on empirical examples from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and the European Union.

Water Politics - Governance, Justice and the Right to Water (Hardcover): Farhana Sultana, Alex Loftus Water Politics - Governance, Justice and the Right to Water (Hardcover)
Farhana Sultana, Alex Loftus
R3,881 Discovery Miles 38 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in recent years. This book broadens existing discussions on the right to water in order to shed critical light on the pathways, pitfalls, prospects, and constraints that exist in achieving global goals, as well as advancing debates around water governance and water justice. The book shows how both discourses and struggles around the right to water have opened new perspectives, and possibilities in water governance, fostering new collective and moral claims for water justice, while effecting changes in laws and policies around the world. In light of the 2010 UN ratification on the human right to water and sanitation, shifts have taken place in policy, legal frameworks, local implementation, as well as in national dialogues. Chapters in the book illustrate the novel ways in which the right to water has been taken up in locations drawn globally, highlighting the material politics that are enabled and negotiated through this framework in order to address ongoing water insecurities. This book reflects the urgent need to take stock of debates in light of new concerns around post-neoliberal political developments, the challenges of the Anthropocene and climate change, the transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the mobilizations around the right to water in the global North. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of water governance, environmental policy, politics, geography, and law. It will be of great interest to policymakers and practitioners working in water governance, as well as the human right to water and sanitation.

Everyday Environmentalism - Creating an Urban Political Ecology (Paperback): Alex Loftus Everyday Environmentalism - Creating an Urban Political Ecology (Paperback)
Alex Loftus
R642 R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Save R47 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Everyday Environmentalism develops a conversation between marxist theories of everyday life and recent work in urban political ecology, arguing for a philosophy of praxis in relation to the politics of urban environments. Grounding its theoretical debate in empirical studies of struggles to obtain water in the informal settlements of Durban, South Africa, as well as in the creative acts of insurgent art activists in London, Alex Loftus builds on the work of key marxist thinkers to redefine "environmental politics." A marxist philosophy of praxis-that world-changing ideas emerge from the acts of everyday people-undergirds the book. Our daily reality, writes Loftus, is woven out of the entanglements of social and natural relations, and as such a kind of environmental politics is automatically incorporated into our lives. Nevertheless, one effect of the public recognition of global environmental change, asserts Loftus, has been a resurgence of dualistic understandings of the world: for example, that nature is inflicting revenge on arrogant human societies. This ambitious work reformulates-with the assistance of such philosophers as Lukacs, Gramsci, Lefebvre, and others-a politics of the environment in which everyday subjectivity is at the heart of a revolutionary politics.

Water Politics - Governance, Justice and the Right to Water (Paperback): Farhana Sultana, Alex Loftus Water Politics - Governance, Justice and the Right to Water (Paperback)
Farhana Sultana, Alex Loftus
R1,211 Discovery Miles 12 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in recent years. This book broadens existing discussions on the right to water in order to shed critical light on the pathways, pitfalls, prospects, and constraints that exist in achieving global goals, as well as advancing debates around water governance and water justice. The book shows how both discourses and struggles around the right to water have opened new perspectives, and possibilities in water governance, fostering new collective and moral claims for water justice, while effecting changes in laws and policies around the world. In light of the 2010 UN ratification on the human right to water and sanitation, shifts have taken place in policy, legal frameworks, local implementation, as well as in national dialogues. Chapters in the book illustrate the novel ways in which the right to water has been taken up in locations drawn globally, highlighting the material politics that are enabled and negotiated through this framework in order to address ongoing water insecurities. This book reflects the urgent need to take stock of debates in light of new concerns around post-neoliberal political developments, the challenges of the Anthropocene and climate change, the transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the mobilizations around the right to water in the global North. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of water governance, environmental policy, politics, geography, and law. It will be of great interest to policymakers and practitioners working in water governance, as well as the human right to water and sanitation.

The Right to Water - Politics, Governance and Social Struggles (Paperback): Farhana Sultana, Alex Loftus The Right to Water - Politics, Governance and Social Struggles (Paperback)
Farhana Sultana, Alex Loftus
R1,661 Discovery Miles 16 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a crucial moment into the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political, geographic and socio-economics contexts, seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics. The Right to Water engages with a range of approaches that focus on philosophical, legal and governance perspectives before seeking to apply these more abstract arguments to an array of concrete struggles and case studies. In so doing, the book builds on empirical examples from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and the European Union.

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