Project Description

Bringing together the analysis of a diverse team of interdisciplinary social scientists from the USA, France, and Spain, this project aimed to develop a new approach to environmental problems. Cutting through the fragmented perspectives on water crises, it sought to shift the analysis on water policy by looking at the social logics behind environmental issues. Most importantly, it analyzes the dynamic influences on water management, as well as the social and institutional forces that orient water and conservation policies. Specifically, the project brought the tools of Pierre Bourdieu’s field sociology to bear on a moment of the ongoing drought in the American Southwest.

The book can be found online at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429201394/field-water-policy-franck-poupeau-brian-neill-joan-cortinas-muñoz-eliza-benites-gambirazio-murielle-coeurdray