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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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 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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