Rooted water collectives: Towards an analytical framework
Jeroen Vos,Rutgerd Boelens,Rutgerd Boelens,Jean-Philippe Venot,Jean-Philippe Venot,Marcel Kuper +5 more
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In this paper, the authors present an analytical framework to identify and understand grassroots water governance practices, which they call "rooted water collectives" (RWCs), which can be multi-scalar organizations that engage in common property resources management or multiscale social movements that advocate for common resources governance.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2020-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Common-pool resource & Grassroots.read more
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Territorial pluralism: water users’ multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador’s highlands
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that water governance takes shape in contexts of territorial pluralism centred on the interplay of divergent interests in defining, constructing and representing hydrosocial territory.
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Hybridizing the commons. Privatizing and outsourcing collective irrigation management after technological change in Spain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the strategies of collective-private confrontation and collaboration that are emerging in irrigator communities, and characterize how they affect the management of these irrigation systems.
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Scaling up but losing out? Water commons' dilemmas between transnational movements and grassroots struggles in Latin America
TL;DR: In the context of globalizing transboundary environmental challenges, strategies to protect and secure the local commons such as water resources have been increasingly scaled up as mentioned in this paper and local communities have started to engage in transnational mobilisations to defend their rights and express their concerns.
“… And not a Single Injustice Remains”: Hydro-Territorial Colonization and Techno-Political Transformations in Spain : from Part II - Hydrosocial De-Patterning and Re-Composition
Erik Swyngedouw,Rutgerd Boelens +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Boelens et al. explore how changing political visions, socio-cultural imaginaries and hydro-territorial configurations interact with shifting practices of water justice.
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Contractual reciprocity and the re-making of community hydrosocial territories: The case of la chimba in the ecuadorian páramos
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse how the Kayambi community of La Chimba in the northern Sierra of Ecuador has managed to defend and secure its hydrosocial territory through the creation and re-creation of its indigenous identity and networks and related cultural politics that find expression in different forms of contractual reciprocity.
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