In this Book
- Unsettled Waters: Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudication resurfaced tensions and created conflicts among water sovereigns at multiple scales. Based on more than ten years of fieldwork, this book tells a fascinating story of resistance involving communal water cultures, Native rights and cleaved identities, clashing experts, and unintended outcomes. Whether the state can alter adjudications to meet the water demands in the twenty-first century will have serious consequences.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Part One. Unsettled Waters: How Water Adjudication Works, What It Does, and What Happens When It Fails
- Part Two. The Production of Water Expertise: The Adjudication-Industrial Complex and Its Consequences
- Part Three. Adjudicating the Unknown Future of New Mexico’s Water
- 10. Water Coda, with No End in Sight
- pp. 177-186
- References
- pp. 213-226
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520971127
Related ISBN(s)
9780520299351, 9780520299368
MARC Record
OCLC
1033548285
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-16
Language
English
Open Access
No