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1. The Politics of Fresh Water: Setting the Stage Tamar Mayer and Catherine M. Ashcraft 2. Ancient Roman Water Rights and Commons Theory Cynthia J. Bannon 3. Legal Mobilization and the Politics of Water Pollution: The Case of the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin in Argentina Daniel Ryan and Andrs Napoli 4. Does River Basin Governance Mean Wider Access to River Management? A Long-term Perspective from the Tennessee, Columbia, and Connecticut Rivers Eve Vogel 5. Shifting Currents in Water Diplomacy: Negotiating Conflict in the Danube and Nile River Basins Catherine M. Ashcraft 6. The Era of Big Dam Building: It aint Over `til its Over Francis J. Magilligan, Chris S. Sneddon, and Coleen A. Fox 7. Oil and Water Dont Mix: Impacts of Oil and Gas Development on Sakhalins Water Resources Jessica K. Graybill 8. The Plight of New Zealands Watersheds Michael Vincent McGinnis 9. Cultural Water Wars: Power and Hegemony in the Semiotics of Water David Groenfeldt 10. Theorizing Gender, Ethnic Difference, and Inequality in Relation to Water Access and Politics in Southeastern Turkey Leila M. Harris 11. Water, Life, and Community in the Arid Realm: The Curious Case of Karez and Acequia Daanish Mustafa 12. The Politics of Muddled Waters in Gujarat: A Religious Nationalist Development Models Treatment of Water Pushpa Iyer 13. In Hidden View: How Water became a Catalyst for Indigenous Farmworker Resistance in Baja California, Mexico Marcos Lpez 14. From Management to Governance: Rethinking Water Policy and Privatization on Easter Island Maria Alessandra Woolson 15. Strange Waters: From Confluence to Vortex in the Los Angeles Basin T. S. McMillin




