1st Edition
The Biopolitics of Water Governance, Scarcity and Populations
By Sofie Hellberg
Copyright 2018
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Biopolitics refers to a form of politics concerned with administering and regulating the conditions of life at an aggregated level of populations. This book provides a biopolitical perspective on water governance and its effects. It draws on the work of Foucault to explore how notions of scarcity are used in strategies of governance and how such... Read more
1. The power and politics of Water
2. (Green) Governmentality and biopolitics
3. Global water governance: Scarcity, populations and distinctions
4. Hydromentalities
5. Understanding biopolitical effects locally: Life(styles), subjectivities and moral obligations
6. The biopolitics of water
Biography
Sofie Hellberg is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
