Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. Part I COMMODIFICATION
7. Chapter 1 CONTESTING EQUIVALENCES Controversies over Water and Mining in Peru and Chile 15
8. Chapter 2 DAM NATION Cubbie Station and the Waters of the Darling 36
9. Chapter 3 WATER AND ILL-BEING Displaced People and Dam-Based Development in India 61
10. Part II WATER AND TECHNOLOGY
11. Chapter 4 AESTHETICS OF A RELATIONSHIP 79
12. Chapter 5 LA PILA DE SAN JUAN Historic Transformations of Water as a Public Symbol in Suchitoto, El Salvador 98
13. Chapter 6 NOT SO BORING Assembling and Reassembling Groundwater Tales and Technologies from Malerkotla, Punjab 119
14. Chapter 7 KENYAN LANDSCAPE, IDENTITY, AND ACCESS 138
15. Part III URBANIZATION
16. Chapter 8 HEALTH CHALLENGES OF URBAN POVERTY AND WATER SUPPLY IN NORTHERN GHANA 155
17. Chapter 9 THE RISK OF WATER Dengue Prevention and Control in Urban Cambodia 180
18. Chapter 10 THE WATER CRISIS IN IRELAND The Sociopolitical Contexts of Risk in Contemporary Society 199
19. Part IV GOVERNANCE
20. Chapter 11 FAIRNESS AND THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER A Preliminary Cross-Cultural Theory 217
21. Chapter 12 INDIGENOUS WATER GOVERNANCE AND RESISTANCE A Syilx Perspective 239
22. Chapter 13 BUREAUCRATIC BRICOLAGE AND ADAPTIVE COMANAGEMENT IN INDONESIAN IRRIGATION 255
23. Chapter 14 ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSIGHTS INTO STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION IN WATER MANAGEMENT OF THE EDWARDS AQUIFER IN TEXAS 278
24. CONTRIBUTORS 298
25. INDEX 303