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- A Future History of Water
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: Duke University Press
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devices—formula, index, list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct future but what counts as the future in the first place. A Future History of Water is an ethnographically rich and conceptually charged journey into ant-filled water meters, fantastical water taxonomies, promises captured on slips of paper, and statistical maneuvers that dissolve the human of human rights. Ultimately, Ballestero demonstrates what happens when instead of trying to fix its meaning, we make water’s changing form the precondition of our analyses.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-35
- 1. Formula
- pp. 36-74
- Conclusion
- pp. 185-200
- References
- pp. 211-224
Additional Information
ISBN
9781478004516
Related ISBN(s)
9781478003595, 9781478003892, 9781478090946
MARC Record
OCLC
1253403730
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2021-12-15
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY