Book contents
- Water Justice
- Reviews
- Water Justice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Multiple Challenges and Layers of Water Justice Struggles
- Part I Re-Politicizing Water Allocation
- Part II Hydrosocial De-Patterning and Re-Composition
- Part III Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision
- Introduction: Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision
- 10 Indigenous Peoples and Water Governance in Canada
- 11 Sanitation Justice?
- 12 Uniting Diversity to Build Europe’s Right2Water Movement
- 13 Everyday Water Injustice and the Politics of Accommodation
- 14 Sharing Our Water
- Part IV Governmentality, Discourses and Struggles over Imaginaries and Water Knowledge
- Index
- References
13 - Everyday Water Injustice and the Politics of Accommodation
from Part III - Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2018
Book contents
- Water Justice
- Reviews
- Water Justice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Multiple Challenges and Layers of Water Justice Struggles
- Part I Re-Politicizing Water Allocation
- Part II Hydrosocial De-Patterning and Re-Composition
- Part III Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision
- Introduction: Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision
- 10 Indigenous Peoples and Water Governance in Canada
- 11 Sanitation Justice?
- 12 Uniting Diversity to Build Europe’s Right2Water Movement
- 13 Everyday Water Injustice and the Politics of Accommodation
- 14 Sharing Our Water
- Part IV Governmentality, Discourses and Struggles over Imaginaries and Water Knowledge
- Index
- References
Summary
Scholars who focus on issues of water justice tend to emphasize the struggles involved in water access, variously emphasizing contestations over rights and distribution; rules; authority and representation; discourses and knowledge. However, I argue in this chapter that such a perspective can distort the analytical gaze towards conflictual events and processes and towards relationships of domination and resistance. Contestations over water are ubiquitous and the project of problematizing technical and managerial models of water distribution is an important contribution to water justice thinking. However I suggest that we also need to focus on how and why everyday relations of water access/distribution are so often characterized by acceptance, compromise, concessions and adjustment, and the overlooking of injustices. This draws us into the realm of explaining the nature of human agency, social life and the ways in which water arrangements become institutionalized. In the chapter I further reflect on the challenges of studying the non-occurrence of contestation rather than on more obvious manifestations of conflict and struggle.
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- Water Justice , pp. 246 - 258Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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