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Smooth flows? Hydrosocial communities, water governance and infrastructural discord in Peru’s southern highlands

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  • Karsten Paerregaard
  • Susann Baez Ullberg
  • Malene Brandshaug

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The article examines how the design and governance of Peru’s water infrastructure shape the social practices and cultural values stakeholders engage in and draw on when negotiating water rights in a year of drought. Reviewing ethnographic data on a large irrigation project in south-western Peru, we discuss how the project both perpetuates power relations between water experts, authorities and users and creates room to challenge its hierarchical organization. The project’s infrastructural assemblage of state and community canals offers an interesting case to explore how the stakeholder cooperation encouraged by Peru’s water law produces hydrosocial communities.

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  • Karsten Paerregaard & Susann Baez Ullberg & Malene Brandshaug, 2020. "Smooth flows? Hydrosocial communities, water governance and infrastructural discord in Peru’s southern highlands," Water International, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(3), pages 169-188, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rwinxx:v:45:y:2020:i:3:p:169-188
    DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2020.1755538
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