Culture, politics, and political ecology of water: a presentation

Authors

  • Gerardo Damonte Valencia Pontifical Catholic University of Peru image/svg+xml
  • Barbara Lynch Georgia Tech

Keywords:

hydrosocial territory, scarcity, governance, Peru

Abstract

This article introduces the special volume of the journal Anthropologica  dedicated to the culture, politics, and political ecology of water. For this, fundamental concepts, such as hydrosocial territory and scarcity, as well as institutional processes, such as the implementation of governance models of water resources, necessary to analyze and understand the social phenomena associated with water are reviewed. This review integrates the presentations of the articles that make up the special volume.

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Author Biographies

  • Gerardo Damonte Valencia, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru


    Master's degree and PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University. He works as Main Researcher of the Natural Resources, Extractive Industries and Social Conflicts area of ​​GRADE, and is also a professor in the Department of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). He conducts projects in three interrelated thematic areas: extractive industries and rural society; local knowledge and climate change, and; territories and social movements. His work is geographically focused on Latin America, particularly in the Central Andes. His publications include the book The Constitution of Political Actors. Peasant Communities and Mobilization in Bolivian and Peruvian Andes (2008), as well as several articles referring to the social consequences of extractive development in the Andes.

  • Barbara Lynch, Georgia Tech

    PhD in Rural Sociology from Cornell University, United States. She is a retired associate professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Technical Institute and at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Cornell University. In 2012, she was a visiting professor Alberto Galindo Flores at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She has published in Spanish and English on the issues of water and the environment. Her works include Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms (2006), prepared with Sherrie Baver; River of contention: scarcity discourse and water competition in Peru, in the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law (2013), and Vulnerabilities, competition and rights in a context of climate change: toward equitable water governance in Peru's Rio Santa Valley, in Global Environmental Change (2012).

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Published

2016-12-15

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 37 (2016): Culture, politics and political ecology of water

Section

Culture, politics, and political ecology of water

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How to Cite

Culture, politics, and political ecology of water: a presentation. (2016). Anthropologica del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, 34(37), 5-12. https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/15617