A Future History of Water
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A Future History of Water

Andrea Ballestero

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A Future History of Water

Andrea Ballestero

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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 rightand 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 futurebut 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.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2019
ISBN
9781478004516
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Antropología cultural y social

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APA 6 Citation

Ballestero, A. (2019). A Future History of Water ([edition unavailable]). Duke University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1457863/a-future-history-of-water-pdf (Original work published 2019)

Chicago Citation

Ballestero, Andrea. (2019) 2019. A Future History of Water. [Edition unavailable]. Duke University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/1457863/a-future-history-of-water-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Ballestero, A. (2019) A Future History of Water. [edition unavailable]. Duke University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1457863/a-future-history-of-water-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Ballestero, Andrea. A Future History of Water. [edition unavailable]. Duke University Press, 2019. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.