This chapter explores how water has become a central point of conflict and negotiation with
communities affected by mineral extraction. We review analytical and theoretical …

Following harsh economic and political reforms in the 1990s, Peru became a model of a
neoliberal state based on natural resource extraction. Since then social and environmental …

This article reviews the relationship between mining and water governance with an
emphasis on Latin America. Focusing on the last decade, it identifies three major shifts in …

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

Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water.
We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals …

As hydraulic fracturing to facilitate shale energy extraction expands into new regions, how
people think about water's multifaceted relationships to their lands and lives is being …

The rationale for this volume is embedded in contemporary realities and challenges. Water
has always been among the foremost of human concerns, for the very fact that humans rely …

Water insecurity is a condition when affordability, reliability, adequacy, or safety of water is
significantly reduced or unattainable resulting in jeopardized well‐being. Water insecurity co …

Advances in hydraulic fracturing (aka “fracking”) technologies and horizontal drilling have
enabled the extraction of previously unviable unconventional oil and gas resources …

Anthropology brings a uniquely holistic sensibility to the study of water. It examines water
from multiple dimensions and in its myriad forms to understand the many ways that people …