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Water, Power and Identity - The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes (Paperback)
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Water, Power and Identity - The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes (Paperback)
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
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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 societies in their own image -
seizing resources and/or aligning users, identities and rights
systems within dominant frameworks. Distributive and cultural
politics entwine. It is shown that attempts to modernize and
normalize users through universalized water culture, 'rational
water use' and de-politicized interventions deepen water security
problems rather than alleviating them. However, social struggles
negotiate and enforce water rights. User collectives challenge
imposed water rights and identities, constructing new ones to
strategically acquire water control autonomy and re-moralize their
waterscapes. The author shows that battles for material control
include the right to culturally define and politically organize
water rights and territories. Andean illustrations from Peru,
Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile, from peasant-indigenous life stories to
international policy-making, highlight open and subsurface
hydro-social networks. They reveal how water justice struggles are
political projects against indifference, and that engaging in
re-distributive policies and defying 'truth politics,' extends
context-particular water rights definitions and governance forms.
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