Water Citizenship: Negotiating Water Rights and Contesting Water Culture in the Peruvian Andes

Pærregaard, Karsten; Stensrud, Astrid B.; Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck

doi:10.1353/lar.2016.0012

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“…The region also witnesses how, in contrast, local communities' livelihoods and development proposals in dam-affected areas tend to promote different practices and discourses, with divergent sociocultural, ecological, and political-economic representations of hydrosocial territoriality (e.g., Orlove et al 2011;Andolina 2012;Duarte-Abadía and Boelens 2016;Paerregaard, Stensrud, and Andersen 2016). The latter commonly emphasize fundamental conditions of well-being and territorial values of autonomy and rootedness that contradict with mega-hydraulism (Escobar 2006(Escobar , 2008Hendriks 2010;Roa-García 2014).…”

Section: The Contested Reconfiguration Of Hydrosocial Territories Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They unevenly distribute benefits and burdens among societal actors. Commonly, while emphasizing universalist progress and modernization, they tend to label vernacular production systems (peasants and indigenous communities) and valuation visions as "under-developed" or "backward" (Swyngedouw 2004;Budds 2009;Boelens, Hoogesteger, and Rodriguez-de-Francisco 2014; see also Paerregaard, Stensrud, and Andersen 2016).…”

Section: The Contested Reconfiguration Of Hydrosocial Territories Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hydroterritorial Configuration and Confrontation: The Daule-Peripa Multipurpose Hydraulic Scheme in Coastal Ecuador

Hidalgo-Bastidas

Boelens

Isch

2022

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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There is a forceful new impetus toward mega-hydraulic projects in Latin America, which are booming but also highly controversial. They bring benefits to some social groups while many others are negatively affected. Technocratic discourses are dominant in the region; they strategically mobilize institutions, infrastructure, money, and knowledge to present particular hydrosocial territorial imaginaries-such as multipurpose dams-as natural, universal, and politically neutral. Meanwhile, affected local communities commonly envision and practice different discourses, values, and worldviews, based on contextualized notions of well-being and territoriality. Using a political ecology perspective, this article examines how the Daule-Peripa mega-hydraulic scheme-Ecuador's "hydraulic heart"-has de-and repatterned the territory, producing new hierarchical relations and unequal distribution of socioenvironmental impacts. Though political discourses have changed throughout state-centralist and neoliberal époques, governmental policies and practices have continued and renewed their defense of mega-hydraulism. In turn, affected communities and families, through everyday territorial politics, respond and aim to rearrange the hydrosocial network in order to regain control over water, land, and territorial services.

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Section: The Contested Reconfiguration Of Hydrosocial Territories Andmentioning

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Section: The Contested Reconfiguration Of Hydrosocial Territories Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hydroterritorial Configuration and Confrontation: The Daule-Peripa Multipurpose Hydraulic Scheme in Coastal Ecuador

Hidalgo-Bastidas

Boelens

Isch

2022

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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“…At the same time, the Ministry of Environment, SUNASS, NGOs and the general political discourses promote and promise participation, inclusion and benefits for both urban and rural water users. However, up to date, such participation has been limited and selective according to the interests of those aiming to realize urban water supply projects (Boelens and Seemann, 2014;Paerregaard et al, 2016). For example, communities have not been significantly involved in the identification and selection of projects to be implemented, but were only invited to participate in validating some remaining details of already predetermined projects with fixed goals.…”

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Water governmentalities: The shaping of hydrosocial territories, water transfers and rural–urban subjects in Latin America

Hommes

Boelens²,

Bleeker

et al. 2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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With increasing water consumption and pollution in cities and expanding urban areas, impacts on rural areas as water extraction and waste disposal zones are intensifying. To unravel these hydro-territorial dynamics, this paper studies the intersecting and overlapping Foucauldian ‘arts of government’ (‘governmentalities’) deployed to convey water from rural to urban areas in three Latin American cities: Lima (Peru), San Luis Potosí (Mexico) and Bucaramanga (Colombia). We examine conventional (cemented) water transfers, broadly promoted payment for ecosystem services schemes and their conjunction, combining scholarship about hydrosocial territories and governmentality. We demonstrate how particular urban-based imaginaries about rural areas, their inhabitants, norms, practices and identities become embedded in governmentality schemes, and how these are justified, materialized and sustained, producing particular entwined rural–urban subjectivities. We explore how these are accepted, negotiated or contested. Our application of the governmentalities framework to analyze the material and socio-political effects of rural–urban water transfers contributes to existing scholarship on the (re)shaping of rural–urban hydrosocial territorialities showing the ‘hidden’ and ‘invisible’ workings of subjectification. It also contributes to the literature on governmentalities by scrutinizing the importance of technology (including physical infrastructure) in creating rural subjects.

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“…El caso de Senyera, como otros analizados en España (Ortega-Reig et al, 2017), Marruecos (Houdret, 2012;Bossenbroek, 2016), Egipto (ElDidi y Corbera, 2017), India (Birkenholtz, 2016), los países andinos (Boelens y Gelles, 2005;Roa García, 2014;Paerregaard et al, 2016;Boelens et al, 2015) y en muchos otros países del mundo (Bakker, 2013;Jackson, 2018;Wilson y Inkster, 2018), pone de relieve el contraste entre la lógica de la gestión colectiva del riego y la de las empresas privadas. Ambas sirven a objetivos dispares y por tanto abocan en una desigual socialización de los beneficios derivados de la gestión.…”

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Cambio Tecnológico, Privatización Y Recuperación De La Autogestión Comunitaria Del Riego. El Caso De Senyera (València)

Ibor

Boelens

García-Mollá

2018

CGUV

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ResumenLos procesos de cambio de tecnología del riego están facilitando la penetración silenciosa de la empresa privada en los sistemas de gestión colectiva del riego en numerosos lugares de España y otros países mediterráneos. Este artículo analiza este fenómeno a partir del caso de estudio de Senyera (València), siguiendo la privatización, la disputa y la posterior recolectivización de la gestión por parte de los usuarios del riego. El trabajo muestra como la privatización menoscaba la autonomía de los agricultores y eleva los costes de gestión en un contexto de escasa transparencia. También revela la capacidad de los regantes para reelaborar su pasada acción colectiva, dando lugar a una nueva forma de autogestión creativa. Palabras clave: Acción colectiva; privatización del agua; gestión del riego; economía moral del agua; riego por goteo. Abstract TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, PRIVATIZATION AND RECOVERY OF COMMUNITY SELF-MANAGEMENT OF IRRIGATION. THE CASE OF SENYERA (VALÈNCIA) Processes of technological change foster the silent penetration of private enterprise in collective irrigation water management in numerous areas of Spain, and in other Mediterranean countries. This

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Water Citizenship: Negotiating Water Rights and Contesting Water Culture in the Peruvian Andes

Cited by 40 publications

References 26 publications

Hydroterritorial Configuration and Confrontation: The Daule-Peripa Multipurpose Hydraulic Scheme in Coastal Ecuador

Hydroterritorial Configuration and Confrontation: The Daule-Peripa Multipurpose Hydraulic Scheme in Coastal Ecuador

Water governmentalities: The shaping of hydrosocial territories, water transfers and rural–urban subjects in Latin America

Cambio Tecnológico, Privatización Y Recuperación De La Autogestión Comunitaria Del Riego. El Caso De Senyera (València)

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