This book travels to the heart of power, inequality and injustice in water politics. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, Astrid B. Stensrud explores the impact of climate change and extractivist neoliberal policies – including Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), a global paradigm that views water as a finite resource in need of management.
Engaging with the many different actors and entities participating in the constitution of the watershed – from engineers, bureaucrats and farmers, to mountains, springs and canals – Stensrud shines light on different yet entangled water practices and water worlds and how both the watershed and our understanding of water itself have changed.
Challenging hegemonic understandings, the book moves beyond conventional perspectives of political ecology and political economy to achieve a decolonial perspective.
Table of Content
Maps and Figures
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
List of Words in Quechua and Spanish
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Water and Watershed Politics
1. Engineering Water Flows
2. Colonising the Desert
3. Water Payments
4. Water Uncertainties and Disasters
5. Water Efficiency
6. Legible and Illegible Water
7. Owning Water
Conclusion: Water Multiplicity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Astrid B. Stensrud is Associate Professor at the Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder. She is the co-editor of Climate, Capitalism and Communities (Pluto, 2019) and a contributor to Waterworlds (Berghahn, 2016) and Identity Destabilised (Pluto, 2016).
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