Paradoxes of Water: A Reading List

Questions about water are often implicitly about systems of power. The benefits and impacts of how water is used, distributed, and accessed are unevenly distributed. Water thus becomes a site where the inequalities in society are made visible and contestation arises. The readings listed here offer a...

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Main Author: The Editors of <em>Open Rivers</em>
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Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2018-07-01
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Online Access: https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/paradoxes-of-water-a-reading-list/
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spelling doaj.art-ae5d50471dac4347a923e41b555fecf82022-12-22T00:39:45ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingOpen Rivers2471-190X2018-07-01Issue Eleven : Summer 2018https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.4856Paradoxes of Water: A Reading ListThe Editors of <em>Open Rivers</em>Questions about water are often implicitly about systems of power. The benefits and impacts of how water is used, distributed, and accessed are unevenly distributed. Water thus becomes a site where the inequalities in society are made visible and contestation arises. The readings listed here offer a sample of some of the ways water is implicated in systems of inequality and work toward social justice. https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/paradoxes-of-water-a-reading-list/ anthropologyenvironmental historyhistoryinternationalplanning / policyresearch
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