ABSTRACT
In the introductory chapter, Cortesi has engaged with all the case studies and brought out the key insights of this book for re-reading water conflicts in conversation with the idea of it. As Cortesi has mentioned, these are mutually exclusive and most case studies presented in this book highlight all three phenomena. This lack of 'democratisation' of the conversation around conflicts is only an issue between researchers and activists but it is also an issue between different social movements and between activists within the same movement. Through my work for the last 30-35 years in the water and allied sectors as an activist and as a researcher, the convinced that knowledge and politics need to come together if we have to make a difference in the real world. To realise the transformative potential of the idea of conflict, straddle both knowledge and politics, a goal this book actively pursues by deepening and broadening the conversation among activists and academic researchers.
