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Water (in)security: securing the right to water
Author(s) -
Loftus Alex
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the geographical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.071
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1475-4959
pISSN - 0016-7398
DOI - 10.1111/geoj.12079
Subject(s) - dismissal , scholarship , mainstream , water security , value (mathematics) , politics , sociology , situated , perspective (graphical) , political science , political economy , water resources , ecology , law , computer science , biology , machine learning , artificial intelligence
This paper rereads debates over water security and insecurity through the tools of critical geographical scholarship. It seeks to demonstrate the value of such a critical perspective in achieving access to water for all. While rejecting a simplistic dismissal of mainstream discourses on water security, the paper notes the failure to adequately politicise the processes and relationships that reproduce water inequalities. Finding lessons in recent writings on political ecology, the hydro‐social cycle and on the right to water, the paper concludes with a G ramscian claim to build from the fragmented but situated knowledges implicit in struggles to achieve democratic access to water.