Andean Waterways

Resource Politics in Highland Peru

Mattias Borg Rasmussen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2015
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99493-2 (ISBN)

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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

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

Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: A Sense of Urgency

1. Atoq Huacanca River: Changing Horizons

2. Querococha 3 Bases Channel: Sharing the Flow

3. Shecllapata Channel: Maintaining the Course

4. Aconan Channel: Arranging Infrastructure

5. Santa River: Defending Life

Outflow: Time, Place, and the Politics of Water

Notes

Reference List

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2015
Reihe/Serie	Culture, Place, and Nature
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): K. Sivaramakrishnan
Zusatzinfo	29 photos, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
ISBN-10	0-295-99493-2 / 0295994932
ISBN-13	978-0-295-99493-2 / 9780295994932
Zustand	Neuware