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

Escate, Luis Reyes; Hoogesteger, Jaime; Boelens, Rutgerd

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.07.005

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“…Third, in focusing on the role of human actors in socio-material bricolage, we have also highlighted the way the strategic relationality of infrastructuralinstitutional entanglements directs their actions. Farmers, water guards, and municipal actors reacted to technological changes by trying to (re)shape both infrastructures and institutions according to their own contextually bound worldviews and interests, but also in relation to wider socio-natural relations and how meaning is given to these relations and their transformation (see Hoogesteger et al, 2023b;and Reyes-Escate et al, 2022).…”

Section: Discussion and Conclusion: Aggregation Alteration And Articu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These and other studies (see, for instance, Dwiartama & Rosin, 2014) point at the realization that technological systems such as irrigation systems are neither social, material, or symbolic only, but 'all at once' (Boelens, 2014;Reyes Escate et al, 2022). However, through which mechanisms these different elements influence and relate to each other is often analytically not clear.…”

Section: Introducing 'The Material' Into Institutional Bricolagementioning

confidence: 98%

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Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures

Mirhanoğlu

Özerol

Hoogesteger

et al. 2023

International Journal of the Commons

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Drip irrigation is often considered a technological solution to increase water use efficiency and crop productivity. However, all too often, its social and institutional entanglements are ignored. This paper treats drip irrigation as a socio-material assemblage and discusses the social and institutional changes triggered by the introduction of drip irrigation infrastructure in Ağlasun, a rural town located in the southwest of Turkey. Through an ethnographic study, we investigate how the switch from surface irrigation to drip irrigation entails an interaction of institutional re-arrangements, material infrastructures and strategizing actors to reshuffle the operation and maintenance of irrigation infrastructures, water distribution rules and water pricing. Expanding the concept of institutional bricolage to socio-material bricolage, we offer a nuanced understanding of how material infrastructures and institutions are mutually shaped by individual and collective agency.

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Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures

Mirhanoğlu

Özerol

Hoogesteger

et al. 2023

International Journal of the Commons

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“…The recognition of different ontologies allows us to recognize that there are multiple ways of knowing, understanding, and acting on the world we live in. This recognition gives room to concepts, ideas, knowledges and realities "that commonly are thought to be unproblematic and univocal" (Reyes Escate et al, 2022), creating 'openings' (De la Cadena, 2017 for 'human-nonhuman networked realities', such as irrigation, production, institutions and technology, to be more and/or different from what they already are in the mainstream/dominant sense. From this perspective imaginaries, which represent a specific way of knowing and understanding the world and how in it social and natural elements tie together as -and through-relations, are plural and dynamic (Hoogesteger et al, 2016;Yates et al, 2017).…”

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Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain

Hoogesteger¹,

Konijnenberg²,

Brackel³

et al. 2023

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In this article we introduce the notion of imaginaries as a conceptual entry to study and better understand how and why commons re-create and transform. We do so by first exploring imaginaries as assemblages, and second by analytically dividing imaginaries in dominant and alternative imaginaries. While the former refer to how people imagine and live their social existence around built expectations and their underlying notions, the latter refers to imaginaries that critique instituted society and through it create 'germs' that can lead to transformation. Through this lens we analyze contestations that have emerged around the introduction of drip irrigation in two irrigation communities in the Valencia Region of Spain. These two case studies (Carcaixent and Potries) show how, among the commons, alternative imaginaries are challenging the dominant imaginaries of drip irrigation. We show how these alternative imaginaries result from a different way of assembling irrigation and the social, cultural, material, and economic relations around it. These insights, we argue, open up avenues that allow us to better understand the imaginary creations that reproduce a specific existing order, as well as the germ(s) that can lead to transformations and change.

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“…Assemblages enables us to look at objects and people in their mutual relations and constitution (Bennett, 2010). Looking at the water assemblages through tinkering enables us to understand water use across time and its implications in today's new Caledonian water governance (Kemerink-Seyoum et al, 2019a;Reyes Escate et al, 2022).…”

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Freshwater supply as sociotechnical tinkering: the co-creation of water knowledge and assemblages in New Caledonia

Peytavi,

Bouard,

Le Meur

et al. 2023

Journal of Political Ecology

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This article aims to show that in-depth ethnography of processes and acts of sociotechnical tinkering provide a useful starting point for understanding how water knowledge co-creation works. This is even more relevant in countries with a strong legacy of settler colonization and continued power asymmetries between holders of different water-related knowledges and ontologies. Analyzing infrastructural and sociotechnical forms of tinkering helps understand how various water assemblages interact with official norms, strategies and laws. Drawing on the study of this tinkering practice, this article looks at how the people of Touho, in New Caledonia, assemble different forms of knowledge to understand, access and drink water.

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

Cited by 12 publications

References 68 publications

Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures

Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures

Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain

Freshwater supply as sociotechnical tinkering: the co-creation of water knowledge and assemblages in New Caledonia

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