Book contents
- Water Justice
- Reviews
- Water Justice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Multiple Challenges and Layers of Water Justice Struggles
- Part I Re-Politicizing Water Allocation
- Part II Hydrosocial De-Patterning and Re-Composition
- Part III Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision
- Introduction: Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision
- 10 Indigenous Peoples and Water Governance in Canada
- 11 Sanitation Justice?
- 12 Uniting Diversity to Build Europe’s Right2Water Movement
- 13 Everyday Water Injustice and the Politics of Accommodation
- 14 Sharing Our Water
- Part IV Governmentality, Discourses and Struggles over Imaginaries and Water Knowledge
- Index
- References
11 - Sanitation Justice?
The Multiple Dimensions of Urban Sanitation Inequalities
from Part III - Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2018
Book contents
- Water Justice
- Reviews
- Water Justice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Multiple Challenges and Layers of Water Justice Struggles
- Part I Re-Politicizing Water Allocation
- Part II Hydrosocial De-Patterning and Re-Composition
- Part III Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision
- Introduction: Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision
- 10 Indigenous Peoples and Water Governance in Canada
- 11 Sanitation Justice?
- 12 Uniting Diversity to Build Europe’s Right2Water Movement
- 13 Everyday Water Injustice and the Politics of Accommodation
- 14 Sharing Our Water
- Part IV Governmentality, Discourses and Struggles over Imaginaries and Water Knowledge
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter reflects on if and how current development approaches to increasing access to sanitation services are just. To answer this question, we develop a concept of sanitation justice. We define three dimensions of sanitation (in)justice - distributive, procedural, and recognitional. Using a case study of sanitation projects in the city of Kampala, Uganda, we illustrate the utility of the concept for broadening current conceptualizations of inequalities in relation to sanitation. We argue that sanitation justice entails three dimensions: (1) access to physical infrastructure and related sanitation services to encompass the fair distribution of impacts associated with human health and environmental pollution, (2) participation in setting definitions of what is adequate sanitation and the range of infrastructure and service options, and (3) recognition of social and emotional dimensions of sanitation. We suggest that moving current development terminology of improved sanitation towards articulating what is a just sanitation can help to shift development approaches from a singular focus on sanitation infrastructure to a multidimensional understanding of sanitation services.
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- Water Justice , pp. 210 - 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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