Water security is a concept that has gained ascendance in policy circles and academic
scholarship, yet it remains loosely defined. Indeed, several review articles and edited …

Over the past two decades, more than 80 metropolitan cities across the world have faced
severe water shortages due to droughts and unsustainable water use. Future projections are …

The fossil-fuelled Anthropocene, with its attendant destruction of wildlife, originated with
global capitalism. Early 'fortress' conservation efforts focussed on delineating protected …

Drawing on an analysis of water access and supply in Cape Town (South Africa) and Accra
(Ghana), we illustrate that neoliberal and human right to water-oriented transformations co …

This article explores biopolitical effects of water governance. Based on narrative interviews
with water users in eThekwini municipality, South Africa the article inquires into how water …

This paper demonstrates that materiality-or the physical conditions and dimensions of water
access-and a'lived experiences' approach are powerful analytical tools for context-specific …

Anthropological thinking on water security and scarcity can be traced through four scholarly
approaches: political ecology of water scarcity, water insecurity, water economics, and …

Biopolitics refers to a form of politics concerned with administering and regulating the
conditions of life at an aggregated level of populations. This book provides a biopolitical …

This chapter focuses on a wide range of justice concerns related to freshwater. Tracing
social and spatial differences, from the neighbourhood to the global scale, and between the …

In this essay we investigate the discourses around the Human Right to Water (HRW) and the
growing acceptance of the importance of this right in environmental justice (EJ) agendas …