The Connective and Disconnective Capacities of Water Infrastructure: The Making of Chile’s Largest Off-grid Solar Power Irrigation System
Martine Greek
Abstract:Based on nearly one year of ethnographic research on an inland island in Southern Chile, this article examines the construction of Chile's largest off-grid solar power irrigation system on Isla Huapi. For decades, the island's indigenous population has put pressure on the Chilean government to provide basic services of electricity and sanitised drinking water. Instead, in 2012, they were provided with a governmental development project that promised an infrastructural system aimed at transporting water from th… Show more
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