Andean Waterways (eBook)

Resource Politics in Highland Peru

Mattias Borg Rasmussen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
232 Seiten
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-80608-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Andean Waterways explores the politics of natural resource use in the Peruvian Andes in the context of climate change and neoliberal expansion. It does so through careful ethnographic analysis of the constitution of waterways, illustrating how water becomes entangled in a variety of political, social, and cultural concerns. Set in the highland town of Recuay in Ancash, the book traces the ways in which water affects political and ecological relations as glaciers recede. By looking at the shared waterways of four villages located in the foothills of Cordillera Blanca, it addresses pertinent questions concerning water governance and rural lives. This case study of water politics will be useful to anthropologists, resource managers, environmental policy makers, and other readers who are interested in the effects of environmental change on rural communities.Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voiLZkIWNU4

Autor

lt;P>Mattias Borg Rasmussen is an anthropologist and post-doctoral researcher in the department of food and resource economics, University of Copenhagen.

Inhalt

Foreword by K. SivaramakrishnanPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations

Introduction: A Sense of Urgency1. Atoq Huacanca River: Changing Horizons2. Querococha 3 Bases Channel: Sharing the Flow3. Shecllapata Channel: Maintaining the Course4. Aconan Channel: Arranging Infrastructure5. Santa River: Defending LifeOutflow: Time, Place, and the Politics of Water

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.8.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Culture, Place, and Nature
• Reihe/Serie: Culture, Place, and Nature
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): K. Sivaramakrishnan
• Verlagsort: Seattle
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-295-80608-7 / 0295806087
• ISBN-13: 978-0-295-80608-2 / 9780295806082