{"product_id":"a-future-history-of-water-9781478003892","title":"A Future History of Water","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on fieldwork among state officials  NGOs  politicians  and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil  A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devicesformula  index  list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct future but what counts as the future in the first place. A Future History of Water is an ethnographically rich and conceptually charged journey into ant-filled water meters  fantastical water taxonomies  promises captured on slips of paper  and statistical maneuvers that dissolve the human of human rights. Ultimately  Ballestero demonstrates what happens when instead of trying to fix its meaning  we make waters changing form the precondition of our analyses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960606351413,"sku":"ByrdShop_1478003898","price":59.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781478003892.jpg?v=1788291223","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-future-history-of-water-9781478003892","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}