Amber Wutich

Selected Publications

Wutich, A., P. Thomson, W. Jepson, J. Stoler, A. Cooperman, J. Doss-Gollin, A. Jantrania, A. Mayer, J. Nelson-Nunez, S. Walker, P. Westerhoff. (2023) MAD Water: Integrating Modular, Adaptive, and Decentralized Approaches for Water Security in the Climate Change Era. WIREs Water. 10.1002/wat2.1680.

Wutich, A. A. Rosinger, A. Brewis, M. Beresford, S. Young & HWISE Research Collaboration Network. (2022) Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in 20 cross-cultural sites. American Anthropologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13682.

Wutich, A., W. Jepson, C. Velasco, A. Roque, Z. Gu, M. Hanemann, M.J. Hossain, L. Landes, R. Larson, W. Li, O. Morales, N. Patwoary, S. Porter, Y. Tsai, M. Zheng, P. Westerhoff. (2022) Water Insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in U.S. colonias communities along the Mexico border. WIRES-Water https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wat2.1595

Wutich, A., W. Jepson, J. Stoler, P. Thomson, M. Kooy, A. Brewis, C. Staddon, K. Meehan. (2021) A Global Agenda for Household Water Security: Measurement, Monitoring, Management. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. http://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12926

Wutich, A., M. Beresford, C. SturtzSreetharan, A. Brewis, S. Trainer, J. Hardin. (2021) Metatheme analysis: A qualitative method for cross-cultural research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 20: 1-11.

Wutich, A. (2020) Water Insecurity: An agenda for research and call to action for human biology. American Journal of Human Biology. 32(1): e23345. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23345

Wutich, A, A. Brewis, A. Tsai. (2020) Water and Mental Health. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Water. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1461

Wutich, A. Rosinger, J. Stoler, W. Jepson, A. Brewis. (2020) Measuring Human Water Needs. American Journal of Human Biology. 32(1): e23350.

Wutich, A., M. Beresford, C. Bausch, W. Eaton, K. Brasier, C. Williams, S. Porter. (2020) Identifying stakeholder groups in natural resource management: Comparing quantitative and qualitative social network approaches. Society & Natural Resources. 7(33): 941-948.

Wutich, A., DeMyers G, C., C. Bausch, D. White, A. Sullivan. (2020) Stakeholders and Social Influence in a Shadow Network: Implications for Transitions toward Urban Water Sustainability in the Colorado River Basin. Ecology and Society. 25(1):28.

Wutich, A. & M. Beresford. (2019) The Economic Anthropology of Water. Economic Anthropology. 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12153

Wutich, A., & Brewis, A. (2019). Data Collection in Cross-cultural Ethnographic Research. Field Methods, 31(2): 181-189.

Wutich, A., Budds, J., Jepson, W., Harris, L.M., Adams, E., Brewis, A., Cronk, L., DeMyers, C., Maes, K., Marley, T. and Miller, J., (2018). Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 5(6), p.e1309.

Wutich, A., Budds, J., Eichelberger, L., Geere, J.A., Harris, L., Horney, J., Jepson, W., Norman, E., O'Reilly, K., Pearson, A., Shah, S., Young, S. (2017). Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance. Water Security, 1(2).

Wutich, A., Beresford, M., & Carvajal, C. (2017). Ayni Real and Imagined: Reciprocity, Indigenous Institutions, and Development Discourses in Contemporary Bolivia. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.

Wutich, A., Beresford, M., & Carvajal, C. (2016). Can Informal Water Vendors Deliver on the Promise of A Human Right to Water? Results From Cochabamba, Bolivia. World Development, 79, 14-24.

Wutich, A., & Beresford, M. (2015). Community development in ‘Post-Neoliberal Bolivia’: decolonization or alternative modernizations?. Community Development Journal, bsv049.

Wutich , A. and A. Brewis. (2014) Food, Water, and Scarcity: Toward a Broader Anthropology of Resource Insecurity. Current Anthropology. 55(4): 444-468.

Wutich , A., A. Ruth, A. Brewis, C. Boone. (2014)  Social bonds, stigmatized neighborhoods, and health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.28(4), 556-577.

Wutich , A., A. White, D. White, K. Larson, A. Brewis, C. Roberts. (2014)  Hard Paths, Soft Paths or No Paths? Cross-cultural Perceptions of Water Solutions. Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences 18: 109-120. 

Wutich, A., A. Brewis, A. York, R. Stotts. (2013) Rules, norms, and injustice: A cross-cultural study of perceptions of justice in water institutions. Society & Natural Resources. 26: 795-809.

Wutich, A., York, A. M., Brewis, A., Stotts, R., & Roberts, C. M. (2012). Shared cultural norms for justice in water institutions: Results from Fiji, Ecuador, Paraguay, New Zealand, and the US. Journal of environmental management, 113, 370-376.

Wutich, A. (2011) The Moral Economy of Water Reexamined: Reciprocity, Water Insecurity, and Urban Survival in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Journal of Anthropological Research. 67(1): 5-26.

Wutich, A. (2011) Shifting Alliances: Reciprocal Relations during Times of Hardship in Urban Bolivia. Chungara Journal of Chilean Anthropology. 43(1): 123-133.

Wutich, A., T. Lant, D. White, K. Larson, and M. Gartin G. (2010) Comparing Focus Group and Individual Responses on Sensitive Topics: A Study of Water Decision-makers in a Desert City. Field Methods. 22(1): 88-110.

Wutich, A. (2009) Water Scarcity and the Sustainability of a Common Pool Resource Institution in the Urban Andes. Human Ecology. 37(2): 179-192.

Wutich, A. (2009) Intrahousehold Disparities in Women and Men’s Experiences of Water Insecurity and Emotional Distress in Urban Bolivia. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 23(4): 436-454.

Wutich, A. (2009) Estimating Household Water Use: A Comparison of Diary, Prompted Recall, and Free Recall Methods. Field Methods. 21(1): 49-68.

Wutich, A. and K. Ragsdale. (2008) Water Insecurity and Emotional Distress: Coping with supply, access, and seasonal variability of water in a Bolivian squatter settlement. Social Science & Medicine. 67: 2116-2125.