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oapen-20.500.12657-249032022-04-26T11:14:55Z A Future History of Water Ballestero, Andrea water wonder future difference human rights commodification ethics bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography 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 technolegal 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. 2019-07-18 09:46:50 2020-04-01T10:13:35Z 2020-04-01T10:13:35Z 2019 book 1005198 OCN: 1084621842 9781478004516 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24903 eng application/pdf n/a 9781478004516.pdf https://www.dukeupress.edu/a-future-history-of-water Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478004516 10.1215/9781478004516 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 81285dbd-e0d5-41f2-b8db-6bc5d8055535 9781478004516 248 Durham, NC 2019-07-18 09:34:18, Funder: The Fondren Library at Rice University/Funding project name: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem/Acronym: TOME Rice University William Marsh Rice University open access
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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 right and 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 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.
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