02888oam 2200625I 450 991033070790332120190424100434.01-4780-0451-7(CKB)4100000008332417(MiAaPQ)EBC57797761098245692(OCoLC)1253403730(MdBmJHUP)musev2_89095(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33464(EXLCZ)99410000000833241720190424d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA future history of water /Andrea BallesteroDurham :Duke University Press,2019.1 online resource (249 pages)1-4780-0389-8 1-4780-0359-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Formula -- Index -- List -- Pact.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 right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four techno-legal devices-formula, index, list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct future, but 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.Water rightsLatin AmericaWater rightsCosta RicaWater rightsBrazilRight to waterLatin AmericaRight to waterCosta RicaRight to waterBrazilWater-supplyPolitical aspectsLatin AmericaWater-supplyPolitical aspectsCosta RicaWater-supplyPolitical aspectsBrazilWater rightsWater rightsWater rightsRight to waterRight to waterRight to waterWater-supplyPolitical aspectsWater-supplyPolitical aspectsWater-supplyPolitical aspects333.33/9Ballestero Andrea1975-980009NDDNDDBOOK9910330707903321A future history of water2235160UNINA