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

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