2010 - 2015: Recent submissions
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Redefining Water Security through Social Reproduction: Lessons Learned from Rajasthan's ‘Ocean of Sand’
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)One of the most urgent challenges facing the world today is ensuring local water security under rapid climate variability and change. This is of particular importance in a country like India, where over half of the people ... -
Closing the Gap between ‘Expert’ and ‘Lay’ Knowledge in the Governance of Wastewater: Lessons and Reflections from New Delhi
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)The wastewater crisis in megacities of the Global South is increasingly recognised. However, sector?driven approaches (of river pollution, sewerage, or city?wide drainage) have had limited success in tackling this multifaceted ... -
Is Water Policy the New Water Law? Rethinking the Place of Law in Water Sector Reforms
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Water law and policy are in principle clearly distinct at the national and international levels. The former is binding while the latter is not. Yet, over the past two decades, the respective space of water law and water ... -
Negotiating Marginalities: Right to the City's Water
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Failure of water?related planning in Delhi can in part be attributed to the lack of inter?agency coordination and cooperation. This inability of state and city agencies to work together results in fragmentation of the ... -
Sanitation: What's the Real Problem?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)The vast number of people without sanitation raises the question why this is so. It cannot be a lack of adequate sanitation technologies as these exist for all situations from dispersed rural communities to high?density ... -
Equity and Inclusion in Sanitation and Hygiene in South Asia: A Regional Synthesis
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Today, 2.6 billion people in the world have nowhere safely to defecate on a daily basis or to follow hygienic practices that are important for their health and wellbeing. People are different and require support to overcome ... -
Why not Basics for All? Scopes and Challenges of Community?led Total Sanitation
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)The ‘Some for All’ dictum may work well for the water sector but is not appropriate and workable for the sanitation sector. We live in a paradox of concern for water quality for drinking, while displaying less concern about ... -
Working Locally and Globally for Lasting Change: Linking Community Demand and Political Leadership
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Needs, Rights and Responsibilities in Water Governance: Some Reflections
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article discusses needs, rights and responsibilities with regard to water, drawing on global discourses and cases from South Africa. Taking the New Delhi and Dublin Statements as a point of departure, it describes the ... -
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Precursors of the Egyptian Revolution
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)This article argues that there had been sustained protests for at least a decade before the January 25th uprisings, which functioned as the political incubators that nurtured the forces of the revolution, shaping people's ... -
The Role of the Youth's New Protest Movements in the January 25th Revolution
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)The January 25th uprisings were instigated by youth social protest movements which were organised through online social networks and that had the experience and capability of taking their activism from the virtual world ... -
Introduction: The Pulse of the Arab Revolt
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)This article explores the dynamics of the rupture with the status quo that transformed the face of the Arab world. It examines the meanings of the pathways of social and political change in the light of some of the ... -
The Mubarak Regime's Failed Youth Policies and the January Uprising
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)Throughout its 30 years in power, the regime of President Mubarak failed to meet the needs of the younger generation. During the last ten years in particular, the gap between actual reality and the political rhetoric about ... -
The Political Economy of the Egyptian and Arab Revolt
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)This article advances a framework for understanding the political economy of the Egyptian and Arab revolts. After almost three decades of implementing neoliberal economic policies, the Egyptian economy was nevertheless ... -
Accumulative Bad Governance
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)This article argues that accumulative bad governance over three decades of Mubarak's regime represents one of the main reasons why people revolted. Bad governance contributed to the fall of the regime in three fundamental ... -
Backstage Governance
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)Mubarak's regime was able to pursue political liberalisation without undermining the status quo through the role played by the State Security Investigations apparatus (SSI) in backstage governance. This article discusses ... -
The January 25th Uprisings: Through or in Spite of Civil Society?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)Did the January 25th revolution emanate from civil society? Not if the conventional Western understanding of the term is used, and certainly not if its programmatic association with established organisations is assumed. ...
