TY - ELEC AU - Morinville, Cynthia AU - Rodina, Lucy PY - 2013 TI - Rethinking the human right to water: Water access and dispossession in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve KW - Article KW - Postprint LA - eng M3 - Text AB - This paper engages debates regarding the human right to water through an exploration the recent legal battle between San and Bakgalagadi and the government of Botswana regarding access to water in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The paper reviews the legal events that led to the realization of the human right to water through a decision of the Court of Appeal of Botswana in 2011 and the discursive context in which these events took place. We offer a contextual evaluation of the processes that allowed the actual realization of the human right to water for the residents of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, revisiting and extending dominant lines of inquiry related to the human right to water in policy and academic debates. Adding to these discussions, we suggest the use of ‘dispossession’ as an analytical lens is a useful starting point for a conceptual reframing of the human right to water. Doing so helps to expose some of the problems with the public/private binary, often at the centre of these debates, allowing for greater nuance regarding the potential of the human right to water in different contexts. Copyright statement: “NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Geoforum. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Geoforum, [VOL49, (October, 2013)] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.06.012¨ N2 - This paper engages debates regarding the human right to water through an exploration the recent legal battle between San and Bakgalagadi and the government of Botswana regarding access to water in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The paper reviews the legal events that led to the realization of the human right to water through a decision of the Court of Appeal of Botswana in 2011 and the discursive context in which these events took place. We offer a contextual evaluation of the processes that allowed the actual realization of the human right to water for the residents of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, revisiting and extending dominant lines of inquiry related to the human right to water in policy and academic debates. Adding to these discussions, we suggest the use of ‘dispossession’ as an analytical lens is a useful starting point for a conceptual reframing of the human right to water. Doing so helps to expose some of the problems with the public/private binary, often at the centre of these debates, allowing for greater nuance regarding the potential of the human right to water in different contexts. Copyright statement: “NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Geoforum. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Geoforum, [VOL49, (October, 2013)] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.06.012¨ UR - https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/52383/items/1.0132713 ER - End of Reference