New book co-edited by Sultana assesses water governance and justice
Farhana Sultana, associate professor of
geography, co-edited Water Politics:
Governance, Justice, and the Right to Water, which was recently published
by Routledge. Her co-editor is Alex Loftus, a reader in political ecology at
King’s College, London.
Building on their previous book, The Right to Water (published by Routledge
in 2012), the new volume assesses how the 2010 ratification of the United
Nations resolution, The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation, has influenced
and inspired new regimes of water governance and water politics in both the Global
North and Global South. It reveals ongoing struggles and discourses concerning water
governance across the globe and the shifts occurring in policy dialogues, legal
frameworks, and implementations. Contributors discuss how the rights to water
and sanitation can be realized for vulnerable and marginalized communities
lacking just access to water and how water insecurities may be resolved. Beyond
its academic contributions, Water
Politics offers practical suggestions for policy makers and other
practitioners seeking to achieve the right to water and sanitation by helping
these actors better contextualize their realities and organize to achieve water
justice.
As an interdisciplinary scholar, Sultana works
at the junctures of political ecology, transnational feminism, critical
development studies, social and environmental justice, and human rights, while
pushing the academy to incorporate non-Eurocentric thought and perspectives.
Among numerous awards and honors, she recently received the 2019 Glenda Laws
Award, presented by the American Association of Geographers in recognition of
“outstanding contributions to geographic research on social issues.” At
Maxwell, she serves as the research director for environmental collaboration
and conflicts in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and
Collaboration.
You can read more about Sultana’s new book at
Routledge’s website.
10/16/19