Lisa Palmer

Water Politics and Spiritual Ecology

Custom, environmental governance and development

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses a critical need for a sustained geographical and anthropological inquiry into the social issues of water governance. Rendering visible the ritual ecological practices, contexts and scales through which use, negotiation over and sharing of water occurs at the local level, this book shows the complex functioning and social, cultural, economic and environmental interdependencies of hydrological societies. It examines the difficulties facing local communities in having their rights recognised and their efforts to maintain and assert control of their waterscapes in the face of rapidly changing water governance institutions. It concludes by assessing contemporary challenges to these socio-cultural ways of being, particularly at the interface of accelerated climate variability and development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415713511
• ISBN-10: 041571351X
• Artikelnr.: 40822664

Autorenporträt

Lisa Palmer is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Water Cosmologies 3. Watery Histories 4. Water
Pathways 5. Challenging the Moral Order: Water, kinship and war 6. Water
Relations: The embodied politics of ritual and irrigated rice production 7.
Independence and the (Re)negotiation of Customary Relations 8. Conclusion