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4e de couverture: Depuis les années 1980, l'eau est devenue un objet de préoccupation au sein de la communauté internationale. Cette substance vitale a désormais acquis une valeur marchande qui dicte la conditionnalité de l'aide au développement dans les pays du Sud. Le forage hydraulique est au coeur de la réforme de privatisation qui traverse le Sénégal. Pour appréhender cette infrastructure, l'auteure revisite une posture ethnographique popularisée par l'École de Manchester : l'entrée sur le terrain par les conflits. En mettant en lumière les différents dysfonctionnements que connaissent les forages, elle interroge les processus au travers desquels se négocient et se construisent autorité publique et légitimité politique dans le Sénégal contemporain. Cette étude ethnographique minutieuse explore le processus de formation de l'État au carrefour de l'anthropologie politique, de l'anthropologie juridique et de l'anthropologie du développement. Le forage apparaît ici comme un lieu de l'État et pour l'État. À ce dernier, le forage permet de se construire et de se reproduire sur son territoire. Aux sciences sociales, de répondre aux questions suivantes : comment penser l'État? Comment fonctionne-t-il en Afrique?.

Water-supply --- Right to water. --- Political aspects. --- Senegal --- Politics and government.

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This book investigates the impact of the United Nations General Assembly’s 2010 resolution that elevated rights to water and sanitation are stand-alone international human rights. A major goal of creating this new human right was to incentivize governments to prioritize and pursue policies to improve access to affordable, potable water to the more than 750 million people worldwide who lacked access, as well as to provide the more than 2.5 billion people with inadequate sanitation. The book’s chapters use a variety of methodological approaches including qualitative case studies and quantitative studies that draw on data from around the world. The chapters reveal how the global human right to water and sanitation was created, how it has been used in rights struggles around the world, and the extent to which it has improved access to water and sanitation for the world’s most marginalized people.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- Cape Town Day Zero --- water rights --- water scarcity --- water-justice --- water-governance --- inequality --- South Africa --- right to water --- courts --- vulnerable groups --- UN resolutions --- water --- sanitation --- human rights --- human right to water and sanitation --- HRtWS --- natural language processing --- machine learning --- text analysis --- constitutional reform --- legal opportunity structure --- water legal framework --- socioeconomic rights --- Brazil --- Peru --- Colombia --- social movements --- political cost --- advocacy --- activism --- social movement --- socio-economic rights --- United States --- political opportunity --- coalition-building --- collective action --- human rights from below --- human rights to water and sanitation --- water access --- constitutionalisation --- norm diffusion --- opportunity structures --- impact and efficacy of human rights --- human right to water --- drinking water --- irrigation --- marginalised groups --- indigenous communities --- social and economic rights --- human rights critiques --- right to life --- right to environment --- global rights --- evolution of rights --- construction of rights --- Latin America --- South Asia --- Europe --- Africa --- USA

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Andrea Muehlebach follows activists across Europe as they struggle to preserve water as a common and public good in the face of privatization.

Europeans --- Political activists. --- Public utilities. --- Ethnology --- Study and teaching. --- Ethnic studies --- Municipal utilities --- Public-service corporations (Public utilities) --- Utilities, Public --- Utility companies --- Municipal franchises --- Activists, Political --- Persons --- Political participation --- Privatization --- Right to water --- Water utilities --- Water, Right to --- Human rights --- Denationalization --- Privatisation --- Contracting out --- Corporatization --- Government ownership --- Water companies --- Public utilities --- Water-supply --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Political aspects