Recent waves of water governance: Constitutional reform and resistance to neoliberalization in Latin America (1990–2012)

Harris, Leila M.; Roa-García, María Cecilia

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.07.009

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“…This in spite of the fact that these often impose governance systems that are at odds with the existing local organizational structures and normative frameworks (see also Boelens and Doornbos 2001). This necessary, yet sometimes uneasy relation between local rural communities and external support agents calls for a reconsideration of the intervention methodologies of the latter and a revision of the legal guidelines within which WUAs in the Ecuadorian Highlands (and more broadly speaking the Andes region, see Hendriks 2006;Boelens et al 2013;Harris and Roa-García 2013) are expected to manage and sustain their irrigation systems. The present case study suggests that at least three important first steps are desired for enhancing cooperation and collective action in supra-community irrigation systems: 1) the legal (and de facto) recognition of customary rights and local semi-autonomous governance systems, 2) the development of interactive and participatory intervention methodologies, that can lead to 3) the establishment of local governance systems that, as analyzed in Hoogesteger (2013b), build on existing organizations and normative structures that enhance collective action and collaboration amongst and within communities that share an irrigation system.…”

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Normative structures, collaboration and conflict in irrigation; a case study of the Pillaro North Canal Irrigation System, Ecuadorian Highlands

Hoogesteger

2015

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This paper analyzes conflict and collaboration and their relation to normative structures based on a case study of the history and external interventions of the Píllaro North Canal Irrigation System in the Ecuadorian Highlands. It does so by using Ostrom's framework for analyzing the sustainability of socioecological systems together with an analysis of the normative structures that define the governance systems through which the interactions in irrigation systems are mediated. I argue that the external interventions by the state and NGOs imposed a new governance system that undermined the existing normative structures and related organizations, leading to internal conflicts. The case study suggests that a reformulation of irrigation policies and state intervention methodologies in user managed supra-community irrigation systems in the Andes could lead to higher levels of cooperation.

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Normative structures, collaboration and conflict in irrigation; a case study of the Pillaro North Canal Irrigation System, Ecuadorian Highlands

Hoogesteger

2015

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“…In their eager rush to liberalize and offer the necessary natural and human resources to strengthen market relations and appeal to transnational business capital, extracting water, water insecurity… 69 both 'virtual' 1 and actual, is a key element of new Latin American agrarian policies, also in the Andean countries (Harris and Roa-García 2013;Vos and Boelens 2014). Both large-scale mining and large-scale commercial crops consume, degrade, and pollute water sources.…”

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“…Private companies' accumulation of both land and water-in a context of global neoliberal policies that increasingly impact local communities and Indigenous territories, more and more deeply-once again shows how powerful regions and stakeholders assure their own supply of foods and high-value products, literally draining distant localities and economically less powerful peoples (Harris and Roa-García 2013;Perreault 2014;Vos and Hinojosa 2016). This legal, extralegal or illegal theft of rural communities' and Indigenous peoples' land and above all their water sources curbs their own local territorial control (Duarte-Abadía and Boelens 2016;Hendriks 2010;Roa-García 2014;Rodriguez de Francisco et al 2013).…”

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De-colonizing water. Dispossession, water insecurity, and Indigenous claims for resources, authority, and territory

2017

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Set against the background of struggles for territory, livelihood, and dignified existence in Latin America's neoliberal conjuncture, this paper examines contemporary Andean Indigenous claims for water access and control rights based on historical arguments. In the case of the Acequia Tabacundo irrigation system in the north-Ecuadorian Highlands, the rights claims deployed in peasant-Indigenous struggles are cultural and social hybrids. They are rooted in Indigenous history, but also spawned by centuries of interaction with and defense against colonial and post-colonial frames imposed by the Spanish Empire, modern Ecuadorian State structures and influences of transnational capital. Through these conflicts over Indigenous water rights, authority, and identity, this article illustrates and examines the role of Indigenous accounts of their water histories, striving to reclaim, and govern their water territories in times of booming export-flower water extraction.

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“…They resist through formal protest movements (Harris and Roa-García 2013), informal everyday practices (Ranganathan 2014), and so-called theft (Meehan 2013). These efforts, like the hydrosocial cycle, seek to (re)place people at the center of water's future governance.…”

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Drinking Water

Birkenholtz¹

2016

SpringerBriefs in Global Understanding

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This chapter examines the ongoing global struggle to supply potable drinking water to the world's population. The chapter begins with a brief history of 20th century efforts to expand drinking water supply but argues that these efforts only resulted in partial successes. This was due to rapid demographic growth and to a dominant understanding of water scarcity as a technical problem to be solved through centralized engineering works. This paradigm is being challenged in the 21st century by an understanding of water as enmeshed in a hydrosocial cycle where social elements-including politics and economics-are intrinsic to the successful expansion of drinking water supply. Yet many issues remain, including (1) multiple kinds of water scarcity; (2) competition between different sectors; and (3) contestations surrounding cost recovery, commodification, and privatization. The chapter concludes with a discussion of water's future governance. People are no longer waiting for drinking water supplies to expand but are contesting water's meaning and engaging in participatory resistance to modes of water supply that undermine the human right to water.

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Recent waves of water governance: Constitutional reform and resistance to neoliberalization in Latin America (1990–2012)

Cited by 71 publications

References 33 publications

Normative structures, collaboration and conflict in irrigation; a case study of the Pillaro North Canal Irrigation System, Ecuadorian Highlands

Normative structures, collaboration and conflict in irrigation; a case study of the Pillaro North Canal Irrigation System, Ecuadorian Highlands

De-colonizing water. Dispossession, water insecurity, and Indigenous claims for resources, authority, and territory

Drinking Water

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