Modernity and Hybridity: Nature,
            <i>Regeneracionismo</i>
            , and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890‐1930

Swyngedouw, E

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“…Water, as nature in general, should be conquered for the sake of development and progress. ''Not a single drop of water should reach the Ocean without paying its obligatory tribute to the earth'' as Swyngedouw quotes a Spanish parliamentary document (Swyngedouw 1999). ''With the exception of a few rivers draining the remote North Coast, virtually every drop of water in the state [of California] is put to some economic use before being allowed to return to the sea'' (Reisner 1986).…”

Section: The Hydraulic Missionmentioning

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“…They can be identified in numerous countries and regions. For instance, the hydraulic mission has been acknowledged for the American West by Reisner (1986), for Mexico by Wester (2009), for Spain by Swyngedouw (1999), for the Mekong-Delta in Vietnam by Evers and Benedikter (2009), and for South Africa by Turton (2001). Therefore, whatever the innovation of a social entrepreneur, it will most likely have to be situated within the context of these missions, i.e.…”

Section: Social Entrepreneurship and Water Governancementioning

confidence: 98%

“…For a global perspective, the hydraulic mission (Reisner 1986;Swyngedouw 1999) can serve as an example. The hydraulic mission concerns the construction of infrastructuresuch as large dams and irrigation systems-through state agencies powered with a faith in the conquest of nature by science and technology.…”

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“…This will be developed through a brief historical geography of the urbanization of water in Guayaquil, Ecuador (Swyngedouw 1995;1997c). The second example illustrates how the mobilization of a particular scientific discourse on a specific physical scale (the river basin) becomes an arena for staging political power choreographies that were decisive in shaping processes of modernization in Spain (Swyngedouw, 1999b). This shows how ''scales of nature'' become incorporated into particular political projects.…”

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“…In this example, we shall show how the conflict between modernizers and traditionalists took the form, among others, of a struggle over making and controlling the scale of river basin authorities. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the modernising desires of an emerging intellectual elite of ''regeneracionists'' crystallized around the transformation of Spain's hydrological structure, in an attempt to harness Spain's waters as the foundation for its economic and political revival (see Swyngedouw, 1999b). Water rapidly became a prime consideration in national political, socioeconomic, and cultural debates.…”

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In early 1998 (Le Monde, 17 January), controversy arose in the Paris region about IBM's continuing tapping of ancient underground aquifers. The production of new generation computer chips requires large volumes of water of the highest purity to cleanse micro-pores. Environmentalists, seeking to protect historical 'natural waters', were outraged. The water company, Lyonnaise des Eaux, was worried about the potential loss of water and, consequently, future dividends. The state at a variety of scales was caught up in the myriad of tensions ensuing from this: protection of the natural environment versus economic priorities, the competing claims of different companies, etc… The ancient underground waters fused with politics, economics and culture in intricate ways. This is just one example from a proliferating number where the traditional distinction between environment and society, between nature and culture, becomes blurred, ambiguous and problematic. The contested 'making' of 'Dolly', the cloned sheep, the outbreak of BSE (mad cow disease), the built-up of CO 2 in the atmosphere, and the depletion of ozone in the stratosphere similarly fuse physical-environmental metabolisms with socio-cultural and political-economic relations. These all suggest how nature and society are constituted as networks of interwoven processes that are human and natural, real and fictional, mechanical and organic. They also suggest how the social and physical transformation of the world is inserted in a series of scalar spatialities. 'Dolly', Ozone, or Parisian aquifer waters all embody and express physical and social processes, whose drivers operate at a variety of interlocked and nested geographical scales.

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Rescaling of Resource Governance as Institutional Change: Explaining the Transformation of Water Governance in Southern Spain

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2014

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This paper develops a conceptual framework highlighting the functional and constitutional (two-level) negotiation aspects of water governance rescaling, illustrated by the case of southern Spanish water governance reorganization for the Guadalquivir River Basin. The framework is derived from theories of institutional change and multi-level governance. A necessary precondition for rescaling is changes in actor-specific perceptions concerning how to best address priorities of water management through water governance. Predominant in rescaling is its coincidence with a contingent political majority of these actors enabling agreement on changes in governance conforming to existing constitutional rules for negotiation. Ultimately, in southern Spain, the constitutional setting prevented re-scaling. It had initially been promoted by regional actors benefitting from a contingent political majority at the federal as well as at the state level. The paper highlights that, in the context of transformations of European water governance, in Spain supranational policy-making is of low significance domestically.

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Modernity and Hybridity: Nature, Regeneracionismo , and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890‐1930

Cited by 252 publications

References 5 publications

Social entrepreneurs as change agents: a case study on power and authority in the water sector

Social entrepreneurs as change agents: a case study on power and authority in the water sector

Scaled Geographies: Nature, Place, and the Politics of Scale

Rescaling of Resource Governance as Institutional Change: Explaining the Transformation of Water Governance in Southern Spain

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