Water, power and identity : the cultural politics of water in the Andes / Rutgerd Boelens
- Author:
- Boelens, Rutgerd
- Published:
- London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
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- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction: water-control battlefields; 1.1 The contested field of water rights: norms, power, networks and discourses; 1.2 Investigating water control in the Andean countries; 1.3 This book: from the powers of illusion to the forces of 'con-fusion'; 2 Water rights in collectively managed Andean systems; 2.1 Ceceles versus Tzaticahuán: conflicts over the creation of water rights; 2.2 Water rights and legal complexity; 2.3 Water rights' embeddedness, 2.4 Collective and individual rights2.5 Acquiring water rights; 2.6 Water rights contents: access and control rights; 2.7 Water rights and property regimes; 2.8 Fluid conditions and dynamic relationships: water rights in action; 2.9 Creating and re-creating water rights; 3 Regimes of water truth: interdisciplinarity, domains of water control and hydrosocial cycle politics; 3.1 Balcompata: diverging truths about the heart of irrigation water control; 3.2 Domains of water knowledge and control; 3.3 A true love story: Viracocha, Pachamama and the hydro-cosmological cycle, 3.4 Interdisciplinary ontologies, water control domains and hydrosocial politics3.5 Practice, power and process; 4 Embeddedness of water control in the Andean peasant economy; 4.1 Introduction: the rationality underlying irrationally inverted gro-ecology; 4.2 Agro-ecology and social relationships: hydrosocial territories and ertical economies; 4.3 The organization of farmer-controlled irrigation systems in the Andes; 4.4 The Andean peasant economy; 4.5 Regimes of reciprocity: between mutual support and concealed subjugation; 4.6 Construction and deconstruction of the Andean 'community', 5 The hydro-politics of identity: coercive and capillary powers5.1 Introduction: Don Fermín and the politics of identity; 5.2 The expropriation of creation: eroding control over collective labor and reciprocity in communal water control; 5.3 A power regime transition: coercive and capillary power modes; 5.4 Modern power in ancient times, ancient power in modern times: the hydro-politics of identity; 6 Panoptic power and the moralization of water-control technology; 6.1 Panopticism and the hydropolitical dream scheme; 6.2 Modules and tertiary canals: channeling power; 6.3 The power of illusion, and 7 Expertocratizing local water rights7.1 Subject- and fantasy-loss: the unbearable lightness of hydro-policy modeling; 7.2 Objectified knowledge and utilitarian reason: 'Some have to suffer for majority well-being'; 7.3 Newspeak and the expertocratization of water rights; 7.4 Modern water rights and water scarcity generation; 7.5 Producing modern water needs and practicing self-reproach; 7.6 Lack of imagination; 8 Neoliberalizing collective water rights and creating spaces of resistance; 8.1 Introduction: from gamonalismo to modern water grabbing: pishtaku metamorphosis
- Summary:
- This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence of State-/market-based water governance, and confront coercive and participatory boundary policing ('normal' vs. 'abnormal'). The book examines grassroots building of multi-layered water-rights territories, and State, market and expert networks' vigorous efforts to reshape these water so.
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- ISBN:
- 9781317964049 electronic bk.
1317964047 electronic bk.
9781315867557
1315867559 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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