Volume 12 | Issue 1
Special issue: Farmer-led irrigation development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Investment, policy engagements and agrarian transformation
Guest Editors: Gert Jan Veldwisch, Jean-Philippe Venot and Hans Komakech
Re-introducing politics in African farmer-led irrigation development: Introduction to a Special Issue
Gert Jan Veldwisch, Jean-Philippe Venot, Philip Woodhouse, Hans Komakech and Dan Brockington
Water Alternatives 12(1): 1-12 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Petrol pumps and the making of modernity along the shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya
Paul Hebinck, Luwieke Bosma and Gert Jan Veldwisch
Water Alternatives 12(1): 13-29 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Critical governance problems for farmer-led irrigation: State capacity and institutional capability
Anna Mdee and Elizabeth Harrison
Water Alternatives 12(1): 30-45 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Vegetable gardening in Burkina Faso: Drip irrigation, agroecological farming and the diversity of smallholders
Basile Gross and Ronald Jaubert
Water Alternatives 12(1): 46-67 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Development assemblages and collective farmer-led irrigation in the Sahel: A case study from the lower Delta of the Senegal River"
Samir El Ouaamari, Nadège Garambois, Mathilde Fert and Léa Radzik
Water Alternatives 12(1): 68-87 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Irrigating Zimbabwe after land reform: The potential of farmer-led systems
Ian Scoones, Felix Murimbarimba and Jacob Mahenehene
Water Alternatives 12(1): 88-106 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Modernisation and African farmer-led irrigation development: Ideology, policies and practices
Chris de Bont, Janwillem Liebrand, Gert-Jan Veldwisch and Philip Woodhouse
Water Alternatives 12(1): 107-128 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Viewpoint – The politics of research on farmer-managed irrigation systems in Asia: Some reflections for Africa
Janwillem Liebrand
Water Alternatives 12(1): 129-145 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Viewpoint – A hybrid approach to statutory water law to support smallholder farmer-led irrigation development (FLID) in Sub-Saharan Africa
Barbara van Koppen and Barbara Schreiner
Water Alternatives 12(1): 146-155 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Viewpoint – Sustainable and equitable growth in farmer-led irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: What will it take?
Nicole Lefore, Meredith Giordano, Claudia Ringler and Jennie Barron
Water Alternatives 12(1): 156-168 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Articles
Gender, water, and nutrition in India: An intersectional perspective
Amit Mitra and Nitya Rao
Water Alternatives 12(1): 169-191 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Gender in development discourses of civil society organizations and Mekong hydropower dams
Louis Lebel, Phimphakan Lebel, Kanokwan Manorom and Zhou Yishu
Water Alternatives 12(1): 192-220 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Breaking out of the governance trap in rural Mexico
Antonio Cáñez-Cota and Nicolás Pineda-Pablos
Water Alternatives 12(1): 221-240 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Decentring watersheds and decolonising watershed governance: Towards an ecocultural politics of scale in the Klamath Basin
Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki, Jennifer Sowerwine, Lisa Hillman, Leaf Hillman and Bill Tripp
Water Alternatives 12(1): 241-266 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Hydrosocial territories in dispute: Flows of water and power in the interbasin transfer project in Bolivia
Rígel Rocha López, Rutgerd Boelens, Jeroen Vos and Edwin Rap
Water Alternatives 12(1): 267-284 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Not built to last: Improving legal and institutional arrangements for community-based water and sanitation service delivery in Indonesia
Mohamad Mova Al’Afghani, Jeremy Kohlitz and Juliet Willetts
Water Alternatives 12(1): 285-303 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
The critical geopolitics of water conflicts in school textbooks: The case of Germany
Tobias Ide, Anna-Katharina Thiel and Itay Fischhendler
Water Alternatives 12(1): 304-321 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Volume 12 | Issue 2
Special Themed Section: Remunicipalization: The future of water services?
Guest Editors: David A. McDonald and Erik Swyngedouw
Listen to the introductory podcast featuring David McDonald and Miriam Planas
The new water wars: Struggles for remunicipalisation
David A. McDonald and Erik Swyngedouw
Water Alternatives 12(2): 322-333 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Will the Empire strike back? Powerbrokers and remunicipalisation in the water sector
David A. McDonald
Water Alternatives 12(2): 348-359 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Legal barriers to remunicipalisation? Trade agreements and investor–state investment protection in water services
Britta Kynast
Water Alternatives 12(2): 334-347 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Water justice will not be televised: Moral advocacy and the struggle for transformative remunicipalisation in Jakarta
Emanuele Lobina, Vera Weghmann and Marwa Marwa
Water Alternatives 12(2): 414-437 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
The deadlock of metropolitan remunicipalisation of water services management in Barcelona
Hug March, Mar Grau-Satorras, David Saurí and Erik Swyngedouw
Water Alternatives 12(2): 360-379 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Which way will the winds blow? Post-privatisation water struggles in Sofia, Bulgaria
Georgi Medarov and David A. McDonald
Water Alternatives 12(2): 438-458 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
The struggle for public water in Marseille, France
Susan Spronk and Emilie Sing
Water Alternatives 12(2): 380-393 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Power asymmetries and limits to eminent domain: The case of Missoula water’s municipalisation
Cory Mann and Mildred Warner
Water Alternatives 12(2): 394-413 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Special Themed Section: Moving beyond the commodity/commons dichotomy: The socio-political complexity of Peru’s water crisis
Guest Editors: Karsten Paerregaard and Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
Moving beyond the commodity/commons dichotomy: The socio-political complexity of Peru’s water crisis
Karsten Paerregaard and Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
Water Alternatives 12(2): 459-469 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Assembling commons and commodities: The peruvian water law between ideology and materialisation
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
Water Alternatives 12(2): 470-487 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Making the megaproject: Water infrastructure and hydrocracy at the public-private interface in Peru
Susann Baez Ullberg
Water Alternatives 12(2): 503-520 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Formalization of water use and conditional ownership in Colca Valley, Peru
Astrid Stensrud
Water Alternatives 12(2): 521-537 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Liquid accountability: Water as a common, public and private good in the Peruvian Andes
Karsten Paerregaard
Water Alternatives 12(2): 488-502 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Water as more than commons or commodity: Understanding water management practices in Yanque, Peru
Malene Brandshaug
Water Alternatives 12(2): 538-553 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
World Water Week 2018 Section: Water, ecosystems and human development
Guest Editors: Marianne Kjellén, Guillermo Donoso and Kari Vigerstol
Green infrastructure in informal settlements through a multiple-level perspective
Loan Diep, David Dodman and Priti Parikh
Water Alternatives 12(2): 554-570 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Irrigation and equality: An integrative gender-analytical approach to water governance with examples from Ethiopia and Argentina
Laura Imburgia
Water Alternatives 12(2): 571-587 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Investments in innovative urban sanitation − Decision-making processes in Sweden
Maria Lennartsson, Jennifer McConville, Elisabeth Kvarnström, Marinette Hagman and Hamse Kjerstadius
Water Alternatives 12(2): 588-608 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Articles
Designing institutions for watershed management: A case study of the Urmia Lake Restoration National Committee
Jalil Salimi, Reza Maknoon and Sander Meijerink
Water Alternatives 12(2): 609-635 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Hybrid constellations of water access in the digital age: The case of Jisomee Mita in Soweto-Kayole, Nairobi
Prince K. Guma, Jochen Monstadt and Sophie Schramm
Water Alternatives 12(2): 636-654 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Beyond the river: Elite perceptions and regional cooperation in the Eastern Nile
Rawia Tawfik
Water Alternatives 12(2): 655-675 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Nebraska’s Natural Resource District system: Collaborative approaches to adaptive groundwater quality governance
Gregory N. Sixt, Laurens Klerkx, J. David Aiken and Timothy S. Griffin
Water Alternatives 12(2): 676-698 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Re-conceptualising water conservation: Rainwater harvesting in the desert of the southwestern United States
Lucero Radonic
Water Alternatives 12(2): 699-714 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Linking water services and human wellbeing through the Fundamental Human Needs framework: The case of India
Francesco M. Gimelli, Briony C. Rogers and Annette J.J. Bos
Water Alternatives 12(2): 715-733 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
India’s development cooperation in Bhutan’s hydropower sector: Concerns and public perceptions
Udisha Saklani and Cecilia Tortajada
Water Alternatives 12(2): 734-759 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Liquid violence: The politics of water responsibilisation and dispossession in South Africa
Michela Marcatelli and Bram Büscher
Water Alternatives 12(2): 760-773 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Viewpoint
Viewpoint − Water innovation for a circular economy: The contribution of grassroots actors
Rafael Ziegler
Water Alternatives 12(2): 774-787 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Volume 12 | Issue 3
Special Themed Section: Cultural Political Economy and critical water studies
Guest Editor: Peter P. Mollinga
Listen to the introductory podcast featuring Peter Mollinga and Chris Büscher
Cultural Political Economy and critical water studies: An introduction to the Special Themed Section
Peter P. Mollinga
Water Alternatives 12(3): 788-801 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Political culture in water governance – A theoretical framework
Nadine Reis
Water Alternatives 12(3): 802-813 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Imagineering waterscapes: The case of the Dutch water sector
Chris Büscher
Water Alternatives 12(3): 814-835 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Cultural political economy of irrigation management in northeastern Ethiopia: The case of the Kobo-Girana Valley Development Programme
Million Gebreyes and Detlef Müller-Mahn
Water Alternatives 12(3): 836-852 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Reform and regression: Discourses of water reallocation in Mpumalanga, South Africa
Rebecca Peters and Philip Woodhouse
Water Alternatives 12(3): 853-868 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Undercurrents of participatory groundwater governance in Rural Jalna, western India
Poonam Argade and NC Narayanan
Water Alternatives 12(3): 869- 885 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Articles
Policy discretion, adaptation pressure and reloading implementation experiences in EU water governance: The case of the Netherlands
Marjolein C.J. van Eerd, Mark A. Wiering and Carel Dieperink
Water Alternatives 12(3): 886-906 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
City sanitation planning through a political economy lens
Kumi Abeysuriya, Juliet Willetts, Naomi Carrard and Antoinette Kome
Water Alternatives 12(3): 907-929 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Participation and power dynamics between international non-governmental organisations and local partners: A rural water case study in Indonesia
Ian Cunningham, Juliet Willetts, Keren Winterford and Tim Foster
Water Alternatives 12(3): 953-974 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
A sociopolitical analysis of drinking water governance in French Polynesia: The case of the Tuamotu Archipelago
Klervi Fustec
Water Alternatives 12(3): 975-992 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Giving water its place: Artificial glaciers and the politics of place in a high-altitude Himalayan village
Arjun Sharma
Water Alternatives 12(3): 993-1016 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
De- and re-politicisation of water security examined through the lens of hydrosocial cycle: The case of Jakarta’s seawall plan
Thanti Octavianti and Katrina Charles
Water Alternatives 12(3): 1017-1037 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Grounded and global: Water infrastructures development and policy in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar
Benoit Ivars and Jean-Philippe Venot
Water Alternatives 12(3): 1038-1063 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
The Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan River I: Agreements impeding equitable and sustainable transboundary water arrangements
Mark Zeitoun, Chadi Abdallah, Muna Dajani, Sa’eb Khresat, Heather Elaydi and Amani Alfarra
Water Alternatives 12(3): 1064-1094 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
The Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan River II: Infrastructure impeding the transformation of equitable transboundary water arrangements
Mark Zeitoun, Muna Dajani, Chadi Abdallah, Sa’eb Khresat and Heather Elaydi
Water Alternatives 12(3): 1095-1122 Abstract | Full Text - PDF