This book considers the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political, geographic and socio-economics contexts, seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics.

Foreword 1. The Right to Water: Possibilities and Prospects 2. The 'Commons' Versus the 'Commodity': Alter-Globalization, Anti-Privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South 3. The Human Right to What? Water, Rights, Humans and the Relation of Things 4. A Right to Water? Geographico-Legal Perspectives 5. The Political Economy of the Right to Water: Reinvigorating the Question of Property 6. Scarce or Insecure? The Right to Water and the Ethics of Global Water Governance 7. The Right to Water as the Right to Identity: Legal Struggles of Indigenous Peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand 8. Legal Protection of the Right to Water in the European Union 9. Rights, Citizenship and Territory: Water Politics in the West Bank 10. Water Rights and Wrongs: Illegality and Informal Use in Mexico and the U.S 11. The Centrality of Community Participation to the Realization of the Right to Water: The Illustrative Case of South Africa 12. The Right to the City and the Eco-Social Commoning of Water: Discursive and Political Lessons from South Africa 13. Anti-Privatization Struggles and the Right to Water in India: Engendering Cultures of Opposition 14. Seeing through the Concept of Water as a Human Right in Bolivia 15. From Cochabamba to Colombia: Travelling Repertoires in Latin American Water Struggles

Farhana Sultana is Assistant Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA. Her research interests and publications are in water governance, political ecology, gender and development. Combining insights and experiences in and outside academia, she engages in critical interdisciplinary research on water in the global South.

Alex Loftus is Lecturer in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His research focuses on the political ecology of water and the political possibilities within urban ecologies. He is the author of Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology (University of Minnesota Press).