Restructuring and rescaling water governance in mining contexts: The co-production of waterscapes in Peru

Budds, Jessica and Hinojosa, Leonith (2012) Restructuring and rescaling water governance in mining contexts: The co-production of waterscapes in Peru. Water Alternatives, 5 (1). pp. 119-137. ISSN 1965-0175

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Abstract

Political ecologists have made important advances in reconceptualising the relationship between water and society. Yet while they have stressed both the scalar dimensions and the politicised nature of water governance, analyses of its scalar politics are relatively nascent. In this paper, we consider how the increased demand for water resources by the growing mining industry in Peru reconfigures and rescales water governance. In Peru, the mining industry’s thirst for water draws in and reshapes social relations, technologies, institutions, and discourses that operate over varying spatial and temporal scales. We develop the concept of waterscape to examine these multiple ways in which water is co-produced through mining, often beyond the watershed scale. We argue that an examination of waterscapes avoids the limitations of thinking about water in purely material terms, structuring analysis of water issues according to traditional spatial scales and institutional hierarchies, and taking these scales and structures for granted.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Water Security Research Centre Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Globalisation and CSR
Related URLs:	https://www.water-alternatives.org/index...
Depositing User:	Jessica Budds
Date Deposited:	26 Feb 2013 10:27
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2023 12:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/41559
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