Contesting Water Rights
Focused on several very timely subjects, including water rights, globalization, and privatization/neoliberal trends in resource management Takes a unique, multi-scalar, multi-level approach to investigating the contestations surrounding water rights, addressing the local, state, and transnational levels and how they interact Features a surprisingly diverse range of case studies, spanning across India and the United States, which showcase how the processes of privatization are being resisted in similar ways across the globe
Autor: | Subramaniam, Mangala |
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ISBN: | 9783030090395 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 178 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
Veröffentlicht: | 02.02.2019 |
Untertitel: | Local, State, and Global Struggles |
Schlagworte: | contestation of rights global forums informal mechanisms of protest neoliberal privatization social movement state power transnational water realities water resources |
Mangala Subramaniam is Professor of Sociology and Butler Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence at Purdue University, USA. She is a leading scholar in the areas of gender and its intersections with caste and class, social movements, environmental justice, and globalization.