Liquid dynamics : the hydrosocial cycle and the radical politics of water

摘要: The thesis attempts to develop an understanding of the reproduction power in context water sector, relation public sector provision, privatization, and community-based alternatives both. In pursuit that it develops a ?socio-political ecology? which combines methodology political ecology with theoretical framework historical-geographical materialism concept social capital. examines hydrosocial cycle as socionatural process involves continuous (re)construction through ?water? demand, supply scarcity, well construction state. Venezuela serves illustrative example for how first, different forms capital interact reproduce mode power; second, tends produce concentration third, internal contradictions external pressures can lead changes power. particular, points crisis new recognitions radical contingency - potential be fundamentally altered thereby politicization activism.