NEW BOOK: RECURSOS, VÍNCULOS Y TERRITORIOS. A cosmopolitan contribution to rethink hydrosocial issues in global south.

This March 22nd, with regard to the celebration of World Water Day, with the Program Spaces, Policies and Societies, we are very happy to present the book "RECURSOS, VÍNCULOS Y TERRITORIOS: Inflexiones transversales en torno al agua" (UNR Editora, 2017) compiled and edited by Carlos Salamanca Villamizar and myself, after more than a year of editorial work, meetings, travel and research. 

Carlos Salamanca Villamizar y Francisco Astudillo Pizarro (comps.).

In this book we have gathered several contributions that explore a diversity of plots and tensions at a global, national and local level.

In these dynamics, water as a hybrid element plays a nodal role, in relational and contradictory dynamics in tensions that operate and are spatialized on multiple scales, in which populations, States, capital flows, civil society, institutions, rights and territories they energize and stress heterogeneous hydrosocial fields in the context of the expansion of neoliberalism.

The book presents both theoretical reflections and empirical studies, as well as sociopolitical experiences that refer to case studies from four continents, we are fortunate to have had the participation of outstanding researchers from twelve countries, which together give the book analytical diversity and global reach.

In the work we also emphasize the historical imagination, promoting an attentive approach to the trajectories and drifts of the history, in this way, the water bodies and the territories, are also studied in the long term and conjunctures, with what issues like expansion of nation-states, the development of capitalism, colonial issues and modernizing projects as processes relationally articulated by water, give the work a marked historical depth.

With the contributions of Karen Bakker, Rutgerd Boelens, Jaime Hoogesteger van Dijk MSc, Jeroen Vos, Philippus Wester, Jose Esteban Castro, Farhana Sultana, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah Miraglia, Manuel Prieto, Ugo Mattei, Gaston Gordillo, Alain Musset, Erik Swyngedouw , Matthew Gandy, Géraud Magrin, Diego Ríos and Edith F. Kauffer Michel.
We both (with Crlos Salamanca) wrote a detailed introductory study, in a comparative and analytical logic that explores diverse analytical fields and that weaves the axes, and links between all the included contributions.

Soon more details.