Governance of Water in Southern Chile: An Analysis of the Process of Indigenous Consultation as a Part of Environmental Impact Assessment

Contractual Reciprocity and the Re-Making of Community Hydrosocial Territories: The Case of La Chimba in the Ecuadorian páramos

“…In the case study of La Chimba the contractual reciprocity of an indigenous community is the thread that sews and holds their communitarian hydrosocial territory. Thus, the creation and re-creation of the hydrosocial territory itself becomes a weapon of resistance against hegemonic power of the state and the dominance of top-down development and conservation discourses [74][75][76][77].…”

Water assemblages in hydrosocial territories: Connecting place, space, and time through the cultural-material signification of water in coastal Peru

“…Although for many political ecology proponents of this literature, hydrosocial territories are driven by socio-economic and culturalpolitical patterning modes as well as those epistemological belief systems that are strongly political and strategic in nature, we can infer, as Götz and Middleton (2020: 3) put it, that "many of the above processes and factors are suggestive of ontological enactment" (cf. Blanchon, 2018;Dukpa et al, 2018;Höhl et al, 2021;Mills-Novoa et al, 2020;Ulloa, 2020). Exploring the notion of hydrosocial territories in the light of multiple ontologies gives us the possibility, to develop an analysis that concentrates on how water is enacted, related, and given substance, meaning and significance as a grounded assemblage by its territorial actors (e.g., Blanchon et al, 2020;Jaramillo, 2020;Keough and Saidou, 2021;Marks, 2019;Roca-Servat and Palacio Ocando, 2019;Seemann, 2016;Valladares and Boelens, 2019;Vos et al, 2020;Walters et al, 2020;Zeitoun et al, 2016;Vos et al, 2019).…”

Rivers of Scarcity. Utopian water regimes and flows against the current

“…The announced World Water Crisis, as a dystopian horizon, ensured international policy support. Policymakers were happy to close their eyes for neoliberalism's disastrous impacts on smallholder communities, nature, and overall water security (e.g., Bauer (2004), Budds (2010), Cardoso & Pacheco-Pizarro (2021), Höhl et al (2021) and Prieto (2021) show the profound socio-environmental impacts of Chile's model, in terms of water rights concentration; declining productivity and operation of community systems, water and food security, disintegration of water user organizations, and inter-sectoral water conflicts). Nevertheless, without any field studies, the World Bank quickly glorified the new Water Code and its utopian model, forcing developing countries to 'copy Chile'.…”