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Not that you won't get lively debate here, but you may be interested in bringing this issue up for discussion/debate in a listserv that we set up specifically for people interested in water (called the Water Forum). Anyone can sign up at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/water-forum.html. Best, Farhana ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~*~*~ Dr. Farhana Sultana Department of Geography King's College London The Strand London WC2R 2LS U.K. Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1372 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2287 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geography/people/acad/sultana/ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~*~*~ -----Original Message----- From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of bharat punjabi Sent: 02 September 2007 16:46 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Water as the Commons Dear Crit geog members I was wondering whether subscribers interested in water issues had any commentary to offer on the UBC scholar, Karen Bakker's excellent recent paper on water in the recent Antipode (citation below). For a researcher like myself (who is working on intersectoral conflict over water in India), the article came at a very good time, given the intensity of the water rights versus commons debate in the Indian context. Bakker puts the focus on this debate and makes a persuasive case for actvists to not overly focus on water rights. I am writing this message so as to provoke a discussion on this list on the arguments in this paper from scholars working in other geographical contexts. regards Bharat Karen Bakker (2007) The "Commons" Versus the "Commodity": Alter-globalization, Anti-privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South Antipode 39 (3), 430-455. Bharat Punjabi Phd Candidate Department of Geography Social Science Centre The University of Western Ontario 1151 Richmond Street London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2 Tel: 519 661-3423, Fax: 519 661-3750 _________________________________________________________________ Marriage? Get Detailed Profiles only at shaadi.com http://ss1.richmedia.in/recurl.asp?pid=199