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A Future History of Water

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Title:
A Future History of Water
Author: Ballestero, Andrea
Subjects: Anthropology ; Book Industry Communication ; Caribbean & Latin American ; commodification ; difference ; Environmental ; ethics ; future ; HISTORY ; Human Rights ; Latin America ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; Political Science ; Right to water-Brazil ; Right to water-Costa Rica ; Right to water-Latin America ; SCIENCE ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Social and cultural anthropology ; Society & social sciences ; Society and Social Sciences ; Sociology & anthropology ; Sociology and anthropology ; Technology & Engineering ; thema EDItEUR ; water ; Water rights-Brazil ; Water rights-Costa Rica ; Water rights-Latin America ; Water Supply ; Water-supply-Political aspects-Brazil ; Water-supply-Political aspects-Costa Rica ; Water-supply-Political aspects-Latin America ; wonder ; World
Description: Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devices—formula, index, list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct future but what counts as the future in the first place. A Future History of Water is an ethnographically rich and conceptually charged journey into ant-filled water meters, fantastical water taxonomies, promises captured on slips of paper, and statistical maneuvers that dissolve the human of human rights. Ultimately, Ballestero demonstrates what happens when instead of trying to fix its meaning, we make water’s changing form the precondition of our analyses.
Publisher: Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Creation Date: 2019
Format: 248
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9781478004516
ISBN: 1478004517
ISBN: 9781478003595
ISBN: 9781478003892
ISBN: 1478003596
ISBN: 1478003898
EISBN: 9781478090946
EISBN: 1478090944
EISBN: 9781478004516
EISBN: 1478004517
DOI: 10.1215/9781478004516
OCLC: OCN: 1084621842
OCLC: 1084621842
LCCallNum: HD1696
Source: De Gruyter Open Access Books
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A Future History of Water

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