From the conflict about the upper run of the Salt Fork river in eastern Illinois to the battles over the Narmada Dam in India, hydropolitics (conflicts over property, distribution and use of water) are at one local and global.  Baviskar argues that contemporary crises around water exposes the limits of conventional conceptions of a "public" concerned with safeguarding ecology and equity.  These crises afford opportunities for alternative imaginings of social action that transect spaces and scales.

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In conjunction with:  Center for African Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for Global Studies, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Landscape Architecture, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Department of Sociology, Transnational Seminar, Environmental Council, European Union Center, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program, Illinois Water Resources Center,  International Programs and Studies, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program