Description
Book SynopsisCollective Action is now recognized as central to addressing the water governance challenge of delivering sustainable development and global environmental benefits. This book examines concepts and practices of collective action that have emerged in recent decades globally. Building on a Foucauldian conception of power, it provides an overview of collective action challenges involved in the sustainable management and development of global freshwater resources through case studies from Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Latin America.
The case studies link community-based management of water resources with national decision-making landscapes, transboundary water governance, and global policy discussion on sustainable development, justice and water security. Power and politics are placed at the centre of collective action and water governance discourse, while addressing three core questions: how is collective action shaped by existing power structures and relationships at diff
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Power and Politics in Water Governance: Revisiting the Role of Collective Action in the Commons 3. The Collective is Political: Lessons from the Nile Basin Initiative 4. Grassroots Scalar Politics in the Peruvian Andes: Mobilising Allies to Defend Community Waters in the Upper Pampas Watershed 5. Hydro-Hegemony or Water Security Community? Collective Action, Cooperation and Conflict in the SADC Transboundary Security Complex 6. Place Attachment and Community Resistance: Evidence from the Cheay Areng and Lower Sesan 2 Dams in Cambodia 7. Politics of Knowledge and Collective Action in Health Impact Assessment in Thailand: The Experience of Khao Hinsorn Community 8. Agricultural Water Management in Matrilineal Societies of Malawi: Land Ownership and Implications for Collective Action 9. Collective Action, Community and the Peasant Economy in Andean Highland Water Control 10. Collective Action and Governance Challenges in the Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia 11. Goldmining, Dispossessing the Commons, and Multi-Scalar Responses: The Case of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico 12. Key Constraints and Collective Action Challenges for Groundwater Governance in the Eastern Gangetic Plains 13. Stakeholder Perspectives on Transboundary Water Cooperation in the Indus River Basin 14. Reimagining South Asia: Hopes for an Indus Basin Network 15. Structure, Agency, and Challenges for Inclusive Water Governance at Basin Scale: Comparing Mekong with the Nile 16. Synthesis: Power, Alliances and Pathways for Collective Action
