Water, Power and Identity

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Water, Power and Identity is written by Rutgerd Boelens and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317964020 (ISBN 10) and 9781317964025 (ISBN 13).

This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence of State-/market-based water governance, and confront coercive and participatory boundary policing ('normal' vs. 'abnormal'). The book examines grassroots building of multi-layered water-rights territories, and State, market and expert networks' vigorous efforts to reshape these water so.