Water for All
eBook - ePub

Water for All

Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia

  1. 342 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Water for All

Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia

About this book


Water for All chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, which is known for acute water scarcity and explosive water protests. Sarah T. Hines examines conflict and compromises over water from the 1870s to the 2010s, showing how communities of water users increased supply and extended distribution through collective labor and social struggle. Analyzing a wide variety of sources, from agrarian reform case records to oral history interviews, Hines investigates how water dispossession in the late nineteenth century and reclaimed water access in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries prompted, shaped, and strengthened popular and indigenous social movements. The struggle for democratic control over water culminated in the successful 2000 Water War, a decisive turning point for Bolivian politics. This story offers lessons for contemporary resource management and grassroots movements about how humans can build equitable, democratic, and sustainable resource systems in the Andes, Latin America, and beyond.

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. A Note on Terminology
  8. Introduction
  9. 1.   Water for Those Who Own It: Drought, Dispossession, and Modernization in the Liberal Era
  10. 2.   Engineering Water Reform: Military Socialism and Hydraulic Development
  11. 3.   Water for Those Who Use It: Agrarian Reform and Hydraulic Revolution
  12. 4.   Popular Engineering: Hydraulic Governance and Expertise under Dictatorship
  13. 5.   The Water Is Ours: Water Privatization and War in Neoliberal Bolivia
  14. 6.   After the War: Water and the Making of Plurinational Bolivia
  15. Conclusion: Water for All
  16. Appendix: Maximum Holdings under the 1953 Agrarian Reform Decree Law
  17. Abbreviations
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index