This ecological history of peasant society in the Peruvian Andes focuses on the politics of irrigation and water management in three villages whose terraces and

Cabanaconde, a town of 5,000 people, is located in the arid Andean highlands. It is dominated by the foreboding Hualca Hualca mountain peak that is the source o

The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negoti

Peru’s fisheries are in crisis as overfishing and ecological changes produce dramatic fluctuations in fish stocks. To address this crisis, government official

Water is not only a source of life and culture. It is also a source of power, conflicting interests and identity battles. Rights to materially access, culturall