Luisa Cortesi is Assistant Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague, The Netherlands; Marie S. Curie Fellow; Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies Fellow, Freiburg University, Germany; Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University, USA. She leads the Water Justice and Adaptation Lab.

K. J. Joy is Founding Member and Senior Fellow, Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), Pune, India; Convener, Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India.

Foreword: Under The Surface Of Water Conflicts Veronica Strang. Introduction: Water Conflicts: The Social Life Of An Idea Luisa Cortesi Part III: Agential Purchase Of The Idea 1. Can't Trust: The Boaters Of The Waterways Of South East England Versus 'The Charity That Makes You Homeless Ben Bowles 2. Fighting Against Harmful Rumours, Or For Fisheries? Evaluating Framings And Narrations Of Risk Governance In Marine Radiation After The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Leslie Mabon And Midori Kawabe 3. Room For The River, No Room For Conflict: Narratives Of Participation, Win-Win, Consensus, And Co-Creation In Dutch Spatial Flood Risk Management Dik Roth, Jeroen Warner And Madelinde Winnubst Part II: Instrumentalization Of The Idea Of Water Conflict 4. Tocks Island And The End Of The Big Dam Era In The USA Gina Bloodworth 5. When Oil Meets Water: Debating The Hydraulic Fracturing Energy-Water Nexus In Colorado Adrianne Kroepsch 6. Water And Conflicts Around Religious Heritage: Oscillations Between Centre And Periphery? Vera Lazzaretti Part III: Naturalization Of Ecological, Technological, Historical Relations 7. Taming The Cauca River: Community And Sugar Landowners' Contrasting Narratives In Addressing Flood Risk In Valle Del Cauca, Colombia Renata Moreno-Quintero And Theresa Selfa 8 Images Of The Nile: How Competing Narratives Frame Water Disputes Mattia Grandi 9. Infrastructural Care And Water Politics In Cochabamba, Bolivia Patrick Bresnihan 10. The Negation Of Change As A Narrative Strategy Of Control: The Case Of The Polavaram Mega-Dam In India Mieke Van Hemert, Jayaprakesh Rao Polsani and Madhu Ramnath. Conclusion: Deepening the conversation around water conflicts K. J. Joy