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A Future History of Water by Ballestero, Andrea is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Future History of Water about?
Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, <i>A Future History of Water</i> 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
Who reads A Future History of Water?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ballestero, Andrea
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781478003892
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Anthropology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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