Unsettled Waters (eBook)

Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West

Eric P. Perramond (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
248 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97112-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudication resurfaced tensions and created conflicts among water sovereigns at multiple scales. Based on more than ten years of fieldwork, this book tells a fascinating story of resistance involving communal water cultures, Native rights and cleaved identities, clashing experts, and unintended outcomes. Whether the state can alter adjudications to meet the water demands in the twenty-first century will have serious consequences.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction. The Cultures of Water Sovereignty in New Mexico

part one. unsettled waters: how water adjudication
works, what it does, and what happens when it fails
1. How Local Waters Become State Water
2. Aamodt, Dammit! Big Trouble in a Small Basin
3. Abeyta: Taos Struggles, Then Negotiates
4. Local Settlements Connect What State Adjudication Severed

part two. the production of water expertise:
the adjudication-industrial complex and its consequences
5. Changing Measures: How Expert Metrics Change Water
6. Working for the Adjudication-Industrial Complex
7. New Water Agents and Actors in Civil Society

part three. adjudicating the unknown future
of new mexico’s water
8. City Water, Native Water, and the Unknown Future
contents Perramond-
9. Beyond Adjudication: Nature’s Share of Water
10. Water Coda, with No End in Sight

Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 21st Century • adversarial • American West • clashing experts • cleaved identities • communal water cultures • creating conflict • expensive • fascinating story of resistance • lengthy • native rights • New Mexico • Private Property • resurfaced tensions • state envisioned adjudication • unintended outcomes • Water • water adjudication lawsuits • Water Demands • Water Rights • water sovereigns
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97112-4 / 0520971124
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97112-7 / 9780520971127