Water, power and identity : the cultural politics of water in the Andes / Rutgerd Boelens.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Water Control Battlefields 2. Water Rights in Collectively Managed Andean Systems 3. Regimes of Waters Truth: Interdisciplinarity, Domains of Water Control and Hydro-social Cycle Politics 4. Embeddedness of Water Control in the Andean Peasant Economy 5. The Hydro-Politics of Identity: Coercive and Capillary Powers 6. Panoptic Power and the Moralization of Water Control Technology 7. Expertocratizing Local Water Rights 8. Neoliberalizing Collective Water Rights and Spaces of Resistance 9. Resistance as 'Con-fusion': Mimesis, Mimicry and Contesting the Dream Scheme 10. Conclusions and Reflections: Powers of Illusion and Forces of Con-fusion

"This book addresses two of the major issues in current natural resource management policies. The first is the complex and conflicting relationship between local, on-the-ground natural resource management communities and national and international policy-making institutions and elites. The second issue is how to govern, manage and distribute water resources in contexts of growing water scarcity, natural resource degradation, shifting policies and identities, and intensifying local-global relationships. The book elaborates on the case of the Andean countries and their water control communities, policies, laws, and multi-scale relationships"... Provided by publisher.