Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia by Sarah T.

Description: Water for All by Sarah T. Hines Water for All chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, the countrys third largest city and most important agricultural valley. Covering the period from 1879 to 2019, Sarah T. Hines examines the conflict over control of the regions water sources, showing how communities of water users increased supply and extended distribution through collective labor and social struggle. Through analysis of 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 Water War uprising in 2000, a decisive turning point for Bolivian politics. This story offers lessons in contemporary resource management and grassroots movements for how humans can build equitable, democratic, and sustainable resource systems in the Andes, Latin America, and beyond. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Flap "More than land, Cochabambas water--its glacial mountain lakes, river water, and aquifers--has been the most precious and conflict-riven resource since Inca times. Half a millennium later, the epic struggle exploded in the famous Water War of 1999-2000, marking the collapse of Bolivias neoliberal regime and its scheme to deliver water-for-profit to a foreign corporation. Yet, as Sarah Hiness magnificent history reveals, the fight for the right to water was the wellspring of popular mobilizations, revolutionary state policy, and escalating urban/rural tensions across the entire 20th century. In the end, Hiness narrative takes a surprisingly hopeful turn. She shows how rural communities, urban barrios, labor and womens associations began to exert everyday forms of control over fair access to scarce water. Beautifully written, deeply researched, and more timely than ever (as the Andes glacial melt accelerates), this book promises to be an instant landmark of social and environmental history."--Brooke Larson, author of Trials of National Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910 "Long before the Cochabamba Water War of 2000, periodic conflicts erupted over hydrological resources in this Bolivian city. Water for All reveals the long and sometimes surprising history of how competition for water structured its social, political, and economic life. This book will become required reading for those interested in the past and potential future of resource competition in rapidly urbanizing landscapes in the developing world."--Christopher Boyer, Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, Northern Arizona University "Water for All is a fascinating history that ought to be read by anyone interested in Latin American politics and history. Sarah Hiness masterfully written book explores the Water War in Cochabamba (2000) and considers the deep legacy of the 1952 revolution in recent Bolivian politics in that event."--Jose M. Gordillo, Assistant Professor of History, University of Calgary. "Sarah Hiness regional historical approach gives us an entirely new and far deeper understanding of the Water War in Cochabamba, a cause c Author Biography Sarah T. Hines is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the University of Oklahoma. Table of Contents Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Introduction 1. Water for Those Who Own It: Drought, Dispossession, and Modernization in the Liberal Era 2. Engineering Water Reform: Military Socialism and Hydraulic Development 3. Water for Those Who Use It: Agrarian Reform and Hydraulic Revolution 4. Popular Engineering: Hydraulic Governance and Expertise under Dictatorship 5. The Water Is Ours: Water Privatization and War in Neoliberal Bolivia 6. After the War: Water and the Making of Plurinational Bolivia Conclusion: Water for All Appendix: Maximum Holdings under the 1953 Agrarian Reform Decree Law Abbreviations Notes References Index Review "Water for All beautifully illustrates the relevance and the power of history as a discipline. It should be of interest to historians of Bolivia and anyone else interested in unearthing the long roots of Latin American discontent that still justify much of the political struggle in the region today." * H-Net Reviews *"Hines masterfully illuminates the historical roots of grassroots water mobilization." * Hispanic American Historical Review * Review Quote " Water for All beautifully illustrates the relevance and the power of history as a discipline. It should be of interest to historians of Bolivia and anyone else interested in unearthing the long roots of Latin American discontent that still justify much of the political struggle in the region today." Details ISBN0520381637 Author Sarah T. Hines Short Title Water for All Language English ISBN-10 0520381637 ISBN-13 9780520381636 Format Hardcover Subtitle Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia Imprint University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-12-14 NZ Release Date 2021-12-14 US Release Date 2021-12-14 Illustrations 16 bw photos, 11 maps Pages 342 Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-12-14 UK Release Date 2021-12-14 Publisher University of California Press DEWEY 333.910098423 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159416370;

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