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

Published London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Earthscan studies in water resource management Earthscan studies in water resource management. 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 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 Analysis waterrechten water rights waterbeleid water policy watervoorraden water resources hulpbronnenbeheer resource management governance politiek politics water andes Water policy Waterbeleid Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 17, 2015) Subject Water rights -- Andes Region Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Andes Region Water resources development -- Andes Region BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. Water resources development Water rights Water-supply -- Political aspects Andes Region Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317964049 1317964047 9781315867557 1315867559 9781317964025 1317964020 9781317964032 1317964039 0415719186 9780415719186 9781138628922 1138628921

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