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2022-9-1

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KURT, ÖMÜR

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This dissertation analyses the concept of right to water as a collective right. It is comprised of three levels of abstraction. At the macro level, it considers the concept of collective right as the basic leitmotif. At the meso-level, it handles the concept of right to water, the subject-matter of the dissertation, which is problematized with a relational approach to the concept of primitive accumulation. It is alleged that one of the basic reasons for the emergence of right to water besides the water crisis is widespread processes and practices of primitive accumulation aimed at the enclosure of the water commons through manipulating the water-crisis. At the empirical-level, two case studies, one the analysis of the global water justice movement and the other, the analysis of the anti-hydroelectric power plant struggle in Fındıklı/Rize are conducted via qualitative method. Through such empirical analysis, different approaches to right-to-water are compared not only in the empirical sense but also in the theoretical sense. By this way, the theoritical arguments of the dissertation based on the critique of the liberal paradigm of human rights with specific reference to the right-to-water as well as building for a class-based conceptualization of collective right-to-water are reinforced with emprical data. Within this context, the dissertation aims to contribute to a critical reconceptualization of the right-to-water to augment its explanatory power for various right-to-water struggles.

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su hakkı, kolektif hak, insan hakları, ilkel birikim, hidro-elektrik santral karşıtı mücadeleler

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/98658

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis