Water, power and identity : the cultural politics of water in the Andes / Rutgerd Boelens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boelens, Rutgerd, author.

Series:

Earthscan studies in water resource management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water rights--Andes Region.

Water rights.

Water-supply--Political aspects--Andes Region.

Water-supply.

Water resources development--Andes Region.

Water resources development.

Water-supply--Political aspects.

Andes Region.

Physical Description:

xxii, 365 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

"This book addresses two of the major issues in current natural resource management policies. The first is the complex and conflicting relationship between local, on-the-ground natural resource management communities and national and international policy-making institutions and elites. The second issue is how to govern, manage and distribute water resources in contexts of growing water scarcity, natural resource degradation, shifting policies and identities, and intensifying local-global relationships. The book elaborates on the case of the Andean countries and their water control communities, policies, laws, and multi-scale relationships"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction: water-control battlefields 1

1.1 The contested field of water rights: norms, power, networks and discourses 1

1.2 Investigating water control in the Andean countries 22

1.3 This hook: from the powers of illusion to the forces of 'con-fusion' 29

2 Water rights in collectively managed Andean systems 39

2.1 Ceceles versus Tzaticahuán: conflicts over the creation of water rights 39

2.2 Water rights and legal complexity 43

2.3 Water rights' embeddedness 45

2.4 Collective and individual rights 49

2.5 Acquiring water rights 50

2.6 Water rights contents: access and control rights 51

2.7 Water rights and property regimes 58

2.8 Fluid conditions and dynamic relationships: water rights hi action 59

2.9 Creating and re-creating water rights 64

3 Regimes of water truth: interdisciplinarity, domains of water control and hydrosocial cycle politics 71

3.1 Balcompata: diverging truths about the heart of irrigation water control 71

3.2 Domains of water knowledge and control 78

3.3 A true love story: Viracocha, Pachamama and the hydro-casmological cycle 80

3.4 Interdisciplinary ontologies, water control domains and hydrosocial politics 89

3.5 Practice, power and process 99

5 Embeddedness of water control in the Andean peasant economy 105

4.1 Introduction: the rationality underlying irrationally inverted gro-ecology 105

4.2 Agro-ecology and social relationships: hydrosocial territories and ertical economies 108

4.3 The organization of farmer-controlled irrigation systems in the Andes 111

4.4 The Andean peasant economy 114

4.5 Regimes of reciprocity: between mutual support and concealed subjugation 119

4.6 Construction and deconstruction of the Andean 'community' 123

5 The hydro-politics of identity: coercive and capillary powers 136

5.1 Introduction: Don Fermín and the politics of identity 137

5.2 The expropriation of creation: eroding control over collective labor and reciprocity in communal water control 138

5.3 A power regime transition: coercive and capillary power modes 146

5.4 Modem power in ancient times, ancient power in modem times: the hydro-politics of identity 156

6 Panoptic power and the moralization of water-control technology 166

6.1 Panopticism and the hydropolitical dream scheme 167

6.2 Modules and tertiary canals: channeling power 175

6.3 The power of illusion 190

7 Expertocratizing local water rights 195

7.1 Subject- and fantasy-loss: the unbearable lightness of hydro-policy modeling 196

7.2 Objectified knowledge and utilitarian reason: 'Some have to suffer for majority well-being' 199

7.3 Newspeak and the expertocratization of water rights 206

7.4 Modem water rights and water scarcity generation 216

7.5 Producing modern water needs and practicing self-reproach 220

7.6 Lack of imagination 221

8 Neoliberalizing collective water rights and creating spaces of resistance 226

8.1 Introduction: from gamonalismo to modern water grabbing: pishtaku metamorphosis 227

8.2 Privatization and deterritorialization: new policies with ancient roots 230

8.3 Recent waves of privatization policies in the Andes 234

8.4 Collective rights and privatization 240

8.5 Resistance 246

8.6 Day-to-day water defense through 'water rights pluralism' and 'concealed spaces' 248

8.7 Reflections 254

9 Resistance as 'con-fusion': mimesis, mimicry and contesting the dream scheme 259

9.1 Licto: challenging the elite's hydropolitical power 260

9.2 Rosa 264

9.3 Decolonizing water community, culture and identity 271

9.4 Remoralizing irrigation infrastructure 276

9.5 Ines: water rights and system design as a never-ending struggle 282

9.6 Resistance as 'con-fusion': mimicry, nonconformity and hydrosocial rootstock territoriality 289

9.7 Reflections: recipes, rights and resistance 297

10 Conclusions and reflections: powers of illusion and forces of con-fusion 303

10.1 The reality of reality 304

10.2 Multilayered water-rights battlefields 306

10.3 Powers of illusion: coercive/capillary domestication and powerful dream schemes 308

10.4 The reality of fiction: beyond paternalism, modernization and mothemization 313

10.5 Fiction of reality: undertows, mimicry and 'con-fusion' 315

10.6 Realizing alternative reality 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415719186

0415719186

OCLC:

893453660

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