Water and Rural Communities

Local Politics, Meaning and Place

Lia Bryant, with Jodie George

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Routledge
19 August 2016

Rural communities; Drought & water supply

Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

The overall theme of this book concerns the multiplicity and complexities of discursive constructions of water in Western economies in relation to irrigation communities. The authors argue that the politics of place is given meaning in relation to local knowledges and within multiple and multiscalar institutional frameworks involved with the social, physical, economic and political practices associated with water. They are particularly concerned with water at the local level, including how it is exchanged, managed and given meaning.

Using case studies from Australia and the United States of America, it is shown how water use and community relations, particularly during times of drought, are central to developing understandings about how communities challenge, adapt and respond to policy developments. The book also brings to light how unequal distribution of resources and risk conspicuously come to the surface during times of drought illustrating that water is a political subject occupying a unique position, moving between the natural and social worlds.

By: Lia Bryant, with Jodie George
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 362g
ISBN: 9780415723589
ISBN 10: 0415723582
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 19 August 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. The Poetics and Politics of Water and Communities 2. Contextualising Water Policy in Irrigation Communities 3. Memory, Place-making and Water 4. Material Sites/Sights and Spatialities of Exclusion 5. Riskscapes 6. Community Futures 7. Realms of Knowing

Lia Bryant is an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Change in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia. Jodie George is a Researcher and Lecturer in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia.