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Engaged Universals and Community Economies: The (Human) Right to Water in Colombia

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dc.contributor.author Perera, Verónica
dc.date.accessioned 18/11/2021 14:19
dc.date.available 18/11/2021 14:19
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.identifier.issn 0066-4812
dc.identifier.other https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12097
dc.identifier.uri https://undavdigital.undav.edu.ar/handle/20.500.13069/1099
dc.description Fil: Perera, Verónica. Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda. Departamento de Cultura, Arte y Comunicación; Argentina
dc.description.abstract While the United Nations’ sanctioning of the human right to water was widely celebrated, many debate the adequacy and political potency of the rights discourse to frame water justice. Drawing on multi-sited, ethnographic-based fieldwork in Colombia in 2010 and 2011, and prioritizing activists’ reflexivity, the paper explores how water activists in the 2007–2011 referendum campaign engaged the universal human right while making user-run community aqueducts more visible as place-based, not-for-profit, culturally attuned, and valid alternatives to the corporate model of water supply. This case study suggests that the human right to water cannot be separated from water commons, and that communal users and activists engage the universal under their own terms. It also suggests we think of these water models as “economic communities�? in Gibson-Graham’s sense: ethical spaces to make explicit our social relations with water, and to cultivate selves and practices that enact alternative socio-natural relations through water’s circulations.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Antipode Foundation
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject Colombia
dc.subject justicia del agua
dc.subject derecho humano al agua
dc.subject bienes comunes del agua
dc.subject comunidades económicas
dc.subject water justice
dc.subject human right to water
dc.subject water commons
dc.subject economic communities
dc.title Engaged Universals and Community Economies: The (Human) Right to Water in Colombia
dc.title Universales comprometidos y economías comunitarias: el derecho (humano) al agua en Colombia
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:ar-repo/semantics/articulo
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dcterms.license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
local.revista.titulo Antipode
local.revista.numero Vol 47 No 1
local.revista.lugar Reino Unido


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