{"id":463,"date":"2016-01-30T19:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/?p=463"},"modified":"2016-05-12T14:13:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:13:06","slug":"ptrg-seminar-series-27-jan-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/2016\/01\/30\/ptrg-seminar-series-27-jan-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Hayward \u2013 A Global Right of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/research\/political_theory\" target=\"_blank\">Political Theory Research Group<\/a> seminar series: 27 Jan 2016<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_484\" style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/files\/2016\/01\/5573791517_90eaf453c5_b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-484\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-484\" class=\" wp-image-484\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/files\/2016\/01\/5573791517_90eaf453c5_b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: United Nations\" width=\"407\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/files\/2016\/01\/5573791517_90eaf453c5_b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/files\/2016\/01\/5573791517_90eaf453c5_b-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/files\/2016\/01\/5573791517_90eaf453c5_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/files\/2016\/01\/5573791517_90eaf453c5_b-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: United Nations<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week\u2019s PTRG saw Professor Tim Hayward present his paper \u2018A Global Right of Water\u2019.\u00a0 In the paper, Tim answered several important questions such as: whether a right regarding safe and clean water is a \u2018basic right\u2019 without which no other right can be enjoyed; who has what responsibility to fulfil the material demands that this right entails; whether the traditional paradigm of thinking is appropriate to address real ecological challenges of a changing world; what political institution would be needed to realise everyone\u2019s secure access to safe and clean water.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ensuing discussion was very constructive. \u00a0Questions raised by participants included these.\u00a0 What implications would Tim\u2019s paper have for theorising broader principles of right and wrong with regard to sustainable water use? \u00a0Should global institutions include a collective entity of some kind that is supposed to control global water use, such as a \u2018global water ministry\u2019? \u00a0How would Tim\u2019s argument on the right and duties regarding water fit into his broader theory of the right and duties regarding \u2018ecological space\u2019?\u00a0 How does he conceive \u2018a right\u2019 in general? \u00a0Would it be sufficient to have an international agreement on global water use without addressing transnational actors (e.g. corporations) who are acting outside international agreements, or without addressing the dynamic of capital accumulation which seems to be the root cause of unsustainable water use? \u00a0Does his paper reject the Lockean conception of human interaction with the natural world, or update it?<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sps.ed.ac.uk\/gradschool\/our_students\/research_student_profiles\/politics_and_ir\/yukinori_iwaki\" target=\"_blank\">Yuki Iwaki<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pol.ed.ac.uk\/people\/academic_staff\/hayward_tim\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Hayward<\/a> is Professor of Environmental Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh, founding Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\" target=\"_blank\">Just World Institute<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/edinburghethicsforum.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ethics Forum<\/a>, Convenor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/knowledge_exchange\/ftan\" target=\"_blank\">Fair Trade Academic Network<\/a>, and Programme Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sps.ed.ac.uk\/gradschool\/prospective\/taught_masters\/h_n\/international_political_theory\" target=\"_blank\">MSc International Political Theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Theory Research Group seminar series: 27 Jan 2016 This week\u2019s PTRG saw Professor Tim Hayward present his paper \u2018A Global Right of Water\u2019.\u00a0 In the paper, Tim answered several important questions such as: whether a right regarding safe and clean water is a \u2018basic right\u2019 without which no other right can be enjoyed; who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30,29,22,8,6,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}