Ontological politics of hydrosocial territories in the Salween River basin, Myanmar/Burma

Götz, Johanna M.; Middleton, Carl

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102115

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“…Within the CBA, water is understood according to the IWRM principle, which is known as a process or framework to achieve water security within a spatial scale by integrating the hydrological aspects of water with its social, cultural, ecological and economic components (Aboelnga et al, 2019;Jensen & Nair, 2019;. However, with the IWRM calling for the integration of the hydrological and social dimensions of water, the conceptual distinction between these entities is emphasized (Götz & Middleton, 2020); thus, the core understanding of the IWRM and hydrosociality oppose each other. The hydrosociality concept understands the entities of water and society as co-constructive, with internal relations producing each other recursively .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The hydrosociality concept understands the entities of water and society as co-constructive, with internal relations producing each other recursively . Due to the distinction between water and society, the IWRM paradigm builds on the hydrological cycle as a neutral scientific concept employed to manage water within a city (Götz & Middleton, 2020). However, considering the internal inseparability between water and society, the hydrological cycle itself is viewed as a social construct within the hydrosocial research perspective , which only serves to distance the two concepts further from each other, since their core understanding of water differs drastically, thereby affecting their approach to its management.…”

Section: Lacking Hybriditymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Political ecological perspectives on an indicator-based urban water framework

Walter

Schmidt

2022

Water International

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Water security is a key challenge in the 21st century. Consequently, several indicator-based frameworks exist to evaluate this issue along with water management. We use a political ecological perspective to identify if the City Blueprint Approach (CBA) integrates aspects of hydrosociality to assess urban water security. Aiming to critically examine the CBA through the lens of political ecology and different concepts of hydrosociality, we identify three problems -hybridity, spatial scale and power structures -hindering the representation of hydrosocial relations within the CBA. Finally, the benefits of integrating hydrosocial and political ecological conceptualizations into quantitative urban water frameworks are discussed.

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Section: Lacking Hybriditymentioning

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Section: Lacking Hybriditymentioning

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Political ecological perspectives on an indicator-based urban water framework

Walter

Schmidt

2022

Water International

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“…Linton, 2010) draws from a trajectory within geography that is increasingly attentive to conjunctions between “environment” and “society” (Bakker and Bridge, 2006; Goldman et al., 2011; Whatmore, 2002). It combines a focus on water as a sociopolitical phenomenon (not itself novel; Mollinga, 2014) with an interest in the material capacities, or ontology, of water (Götz and Middleton, 2020; Linton and Budds, 2014: 170; Yates et al., 2017). 7 Generally oriented to large-scale dynamics, this research often embeds a critique of the capitalist or neo-liberal underpinnings of contemporary water regimes (Damonte and Boelens, 2019; Swyngedouw, 2004).…”

Section: Infrastructural Interfaces and The Question Of Hybriditymentioning

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A multiplicity ofprek(s): Enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta

Venot

Jensen

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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In Khmer, the word prek designates a connection between things. In Kandal province in Cambodia, preks crisscross the landscape, connecting rivers with floodplains, supporting rich ecologies and a variety of livelihoods. Drawing on science and technology studies (STS) and critical water research, this paper explores prek(s) as a multiplicity. Rather than taking the prek as a passive object around which various practices occur, we examine how prek(s) are enacted as ontologically different: as irrigation infrastructure, as pathway to rice intensification, as device for Cambodian state-making, and as climate-friendly agricultural development. After analyzing interference patterns between enactments and their scale-making effects in- and outside the Mekong floodplains, we make explicit our own ontological politics. Focused on sustaining multiple uses and ecosystems, “our” prek is a socionatural mosaic landscape where many human and more-than-human actors and practices can coexist. This ontological politics, we suggest, has implications for planetary environmental knowledges and delta management far beyond Kandal’s landscape.

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“…The production of knowledge along with claims of legitimacy and political authority are bounded by ontological politics. Within the human-nonhuman assemblage, humans compete to highlight their ontological representation of resources (such as water) while marginalizing other ontological framings (Götz and Middleton, 2020). Thus, extractive practices are embedded with ontological representations of nonhuman resources that are further reinforced, produced, and reproduced through power relations and control over the use of violence.…”

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Political geography 1: Extractions

Fluri

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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This progress report incorporates the concept of extraction as an umbrella term for political and geopolitical analyses of the spaces, sites, settings, and scales of power, authority, influence, and resistance. The political geographies of extraction discussed in this report include an assemblage of human-and-nonhuman actors across divergent epistemologies and ontologies, as well as forms of recognition, representation, and repression within and across states, borders, and spatial scales. The research surveyed here covers both state and non-state actors to address national and corporate methods commensurate with ongoing and new conflicts over resources, how they are extracted, conserved, distributed, shared, and hoarded.

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Ontological politics of hydrosocial territories in the Salween River basin, Myanmar/Burma

Cited by 27 publications

References 29 publications

Political ecological perspectives on an indicator-based urban water framework

Political ecological perspectives on an indicator-based urban water framework

A multiplicity ofprek(s): Enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta

Political geography 1: Extractions

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