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020			_a9781478003892
028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No.- 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c: 127172 _d: 17/12/2024
082			_a333.33 BAL
100			_aBallestero, Andrea.
245			_aA Future History of Water. _c/Andrea Ballestero.
260			_a, Croydon _b; Duke University Press _c, 2019.
300			_axiii, 232p. _c; 24cm.
365			_b1645
520			_aBased 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.
650			_aPoliticians
650			_aHistory of Water traces
650			_aFuture History
700			_aAndrea Ballestero
942			_cBOOK
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