This article traces a policy shift that makes the ‘water user’ the main subject of water governance. From a Foucauldian perspective on governmentality these new subjectivities accompany neo-liberal governmental technologies to devolve autonomy from state institutions to an active user base, whilst retaining some ‘control at a distance’. The expectation is that individual subjects will incorporate control mechanisms and internalize norms and that this leads to new publicly auditable forms of self-regulation. The article questions the underlying assumption that policy necessarily accomplishes its strategic effects through governmentality. For this purpose, it draws on an ethnographic case study of how policy produced a new power/knowledge reg...
This article uses two case studies to illustrate how Andean irrigation development and management em...
Abstract only availableAfter the debt crisis of 1982, Mexico began implementing neoliberal policy, w...
Integrated water management is complex and requires the participation of diverse actors to identify ...
This article traces a policy shift that makes the ‘water user’ the main subject of water governance....
This article argues that policy making is an interactive and ongoing process that transcends the spa...
This thesis studies the emergence, process and outcomes of the Mexican policy of Irrigation Manageme...
This article argues that policy making is an interactive and ongoing process that transcends the spa...
Water-related disasters have become more unpredictable amidst human-induced climatic and hydroecolog...
This article provides an ethnographic example of a practice-based approach to water governance. It p...
In Mexico, the hydraulic mission, the centralisation of water control, and the growth of the federal...
Water resources development has led to water overexploitation in many river basins around the world....
This thesis examines the “bottled water paradigm,” where a market version of access to water replace...
In most Latin American countries, issues concerning water governance and control also reflect broade...
In most Latin American countries, issues concerning water governance and control also reflect broade...
In Mexico, there is no specific policy for the governance of transboundary groundwaters. In fact, t...
This article uses two case studies to illustrate how Andean irrigation development and management em...
Abstract only availableAfter the debt crisis of 1982, Mexico began implementing neoliberal policy, w...
Integrated water management is complex and requires the participation of diverse actors to identify ...
This article traces a policy shift that makes the ‘water user’ the main subject of water governance....
This article argues that policy making is an interactive and ongoing process that transcends the spa...
This thesis studies the emergence, process and outcomes of the Mexican policy of Irrigation Manageme...
This article argues that policy making is an interactive and ongoing process that transcends the spa...
Water-related disasters have become more unpredictable amidst human-induced climatic and hydroecolog...
This article provides an ethnographic example of a practice-based approach to water governance. It p...
In Mexico, the hydraulic mission, the centralisation of water control, and the growth of the federal...
Water resources development has led to water overexploitation in many river basins around the world....
This thesis examines the “bottled water paradigm,” where a market version of access to water replace...
In most Latin American countries, issues concerning water governance and control also reflect broade...
In most Latin American countries, issues concerning water governance and control also reflect broade...
In Mexico, there is no specific policy for the governance of transboundary groundwaters. In fact, t...
This article uses two case studies to illustrate how Andean irrigation development and management em...
Abstract only availableAfter the debt crisis of 1982, Mexico began implementing neoliberal policy, w...
Integrated water management is complex and requires the participation of diverse actors to identify ...