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Disputes over territorial boundaries and diverging valuation languages: the Santurban hydrosocial highlands territory in Colombia

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  • Bibiana Duarte-Abadía
  • Rutgerd Boelens

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We examine the divergent modes of conceptualizing, valuing and representing the páramo highlands of Santurban, Colombia, as a struggle over hydrosocial territory. Páramo residents, multinational companies, government and scientists deploy territorial representations and valuation languages that interact and conflict with each other. Government politicians and neo-institutional scientists wish to reconcile diverging interests using a universalistic territorial representation, through game theory. This generates a hydrosocial imaginary that renders invisible actors’ power differentials that lie at the core of the territorial resource use conflict. We conclude that this ‘governmentality’ endeavour enables subtle, silent water rights re-allocation.

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  • Bibiana Duarte-Abadía & Rutgerd Boelens, 2016. "Disputes over territorial boundaries and diverging valuation languages: the Santurban hydrosocial highlands territory in Colombia," Water International, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(1), pages 15-36, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rwinxx:v:41:y:2016:i:1:p:15-36
    DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2016.1117271
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