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Based 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 techno-legal 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.

Water rights --- Right to water --- Water-supply --- Political aspects --- Droits sur les eaux --- Droit à l'eau --- Eau --- Comparative law --- Droit comparé --- Approvisionnement --- Aspect politique --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water utilities --- Water, Right to --- Human rights --- Rights, Water --- Water --- Riparian rights --- Water trusts --- Law and legislation --- #SBIB:39A74 --- #SBIB:35H434 --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening --- water --- wonder --- future --- difference --- human rights --- commodification --- ethics

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"An indispensable guide for all ethnographers, Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that offer concrete suggestions for thinking about and doing ethnographic research and writing."-- Provided by publisher.

Ethnology --- Anthropology --- Research --- Methodology. --- Research. --- Anthropological research

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"Experimenting with Ethnography offers concrete suggestions for thinking about and doing research and writing (i.e., analysis). The volume challenges the notion that analysis is simply an abstract, theoretical exercise; but rather, a concrete mode of action. The contributors come from a variety of intellectual traditions and are wide-ranging in their ethnographic approach. Each essay invites readers to take a step back from concepts, fieldwork, and theories and center on the elusive work that needs to be performed before an argument can be completed. More specifically, the essays explore the deliberate processes for nurturing a space of play for things that have not yet materialized, opening up ways of experimental thinking through ethnographic knowing"--

Ethnology --- Anthropology --- Research --- Methodology. --- Research. --- Anthropological research

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