Jean-Philippe Venot
Biographic Data
| ID | 229329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Philippe Venot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Philippe |
| FAMILY NAME | Venot |
| SIGNATURE | VENOT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3300-6911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Data Wormholes and Speculative Rice Fields: An Infrastructural Politics of Anticipating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The 2015 Paris declaration obligated international development organizations to assess the climate compatibility of their projects. For irrigation projects, like those negotiated between the Agence Française de Développement , and the Cambodian government in the early 2020s, calculations of estimated greenhouse gas emissions have become important requirements. But how to estimate emissions from future rice fields and the effects of irrigation inf…
A reflexive collaborative workshop on agroecology narratives and researchers’ postures
Agroecology has multiple interpretations and goals, driven by social movements, political contexts, and scientific needs. Agroecological transition processes generate tensions between social movements and institutionalisation processes. Researchers are thus caught between two potentially contradictory tasks: (i) advising policy-makers and (ii) supporting farmers and stakeholders in their endogenous trajectories. Here, we review a reflexive worksh…
Tailor-Made Pesticides. Understanding the Pesticides Market in a Productive Agricultural Region of the Cambodian Mekong Delta
This article draws on approaches in the anthropology of things and the anthropology of capitalism. It brings to light fragments of the supply chains of pesticides in one of the most productive agricultural regions in Cambodia. Based on an ethnographic study conducted from November 2021 to December 2022 with farmers, petty retailers and marketing agents enrolled in the pesticides sector, this article shows how a study of local interactions between…
Mosaic glimpses: Serious games, generous constraints, and sustainable futures in Kandal, Cambodia
This paper uses a series of serious games – a form of participatory modelling designed and played in Kandal, Cambodia - as an entry point for reexamining relations between development projects, participatory formats, landscape transformations, and sustainable futures. Critics of development and participation have shown that participatory formats simplify real-world complexities by rendering them technical. This is also the case for serious games.…
A multiplicity ofprek(s): Enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta
In Khmer, the word prek designates a connection between things. In Kandal province in Cambodia, preks crisscross the landscape, connecting rivers with floodplains, supporting rich ecologies and a variety of livelihoods. Drawing on science and technology studies (STS) and critical water research, this paper explores prek(s) as a multiplicity. Rather than taking the prek as a passive object around which various practices occur, we examine how prek(…
A bridge over troubled waters
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public
Slippery land, ever-shifting boundaries: Claiming and accessing alluvial (is)lands in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar
In Myanmar, since the transition to a quasi-civilian government in 2011, resolving land disputes has been high on the political agenda. Grounded in Political Ecology and inspired by Science and Technology Studies, this article investigates the critical geography of the strategies through which alluvial (is)lands in the Ayeyarwady Delta are made into disputed resources. This interdisciplinary research brings together an historical analysis of publ…
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges
An effective placement of irrigation efficiency in water management will contribute towards meeting the pre-eminent global water challenges of our time such as addressing water scarcity, boosting crop water productivity and reconciling competing water needs between sectors. However, although irrigation efficiency may appear to be a simple measure of performance and imply dramatic positive benefits, it is not straightforward to understand, measure…
Rooted water collectives: Towards an analytical framework
Claiming and re-claiming the Ayeyarwady Delta, time and again: The case of Nyaungdone Island, Myanmar
Since 2011 and the transition to civilian government, Myanmar and the Ayeyarwady Delta in particular are witnessing swift and dramatic changes in the modalities of access and use of natural resources. Drawing from political ecology, and on the basis of ethnographic work conducted in Yeinek village tract in the Nyaungdone Township of the Ayeyarwady Delta, this article places recent resources dynamics in a historical perspective. Rather than seeing…
Entre politiques publiques et matérialité: Associations d’usagers et infrastructures d’irrigation au Cambodge
Depuis plus de trois décennies, le modèle de gestion participative de l’irrigation promu par gouvernements et bailleurs de fond rencontre de nombreuses difficultés. Partant du constat que la gestion de l’irrigation présente des dimensions tant techniques que sociales, nous mobilisons les champs de la political ecology et des études des sciences et techniques et montrons qu’une politique publique prend de multiples facettes à l’aune des conditions…
Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development
Mythes sociotechniques et développement: Introduction au numéro spécial
saharienne, dans la rgion mditerranenne et en Asie centrale au cours des dix dernires a es
Sociotechnical Myths in Development: Introduction to a Special Issue
comments on an earlier version of the introduction
Retour réflexif sur une expérience interdisciplinaire exploratoire: L'atelier « Interdisciplinarité autour des petits barrages »
Au cours d'un atelier, qui a eu lieu à Montpellier en décembre 2015, destiné à partager des expériences de recherche sur un objet hydroagricole, le petit barrage, une vingtaine de chercheurs d'horizons disciplinaires variés ont interrogé leurs pratiques et conceptions de l'interdisciplinarité entre sciences de la nature et sciences de la société. Cette expérience exploratoire a mis en lumière deux postures interdisciplinaires différentes. La prem…
African farmer-led irrigation development: Re-Framing Agricultural Policy and Investment
The past decade has witnessed an intensifying focus on the development of irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa. It follows a 20-year hiatus in the wake of disappointing irrigation performance during the 1970s and 1980s. Persistent low productivity in African agriculture and vulnerability of African food supplies to increasing instability in international commodity markets are driving pan-African agricultural investment initiatives, such as the Compre…
Smallholder Drip Irrigation in Burkina Faso: The Role of Development Brokers
Smallholder drip irrigation is widely held as a promising technology for water saving, poverty reduction and food security, despite a dearth of evidence of benefits to farmers, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In this article, we document three development programmes promoting drip irrigation in Burkina Faso. Using actor network theory and insights from critical development studies, we show that development brokers play a key role in aligning in…
Dynamique des postures de chercheurs-engagés: Retours sur la participation dans les politiques de l’eau au Burkina Faso
Le positionnement des chercheurs et des praticiens de la participation a fait l’objet de nombreuses analyses soulignant la pluralité et la complémentarité des postures adoptées notamment vis-à-vis des jeux de pouvoir. Cet article insiste sur l’aspect dynamique des postures de deux « chercheurs-engagés » ayant piloté un projet de recherche pour le développement, en appui à la politique de gestion intégrée des ressources en eau (GIRE) au Burkina Fa…
Farmers’ Logics in Engaging With Projects Promoting Drip Irrigation Kits in Burkina Faso
Development agencies enthusiastically promote micro-drip irrigation as an affordable water and labor-saving device, yet most farmers stop using it as soon as development projects end. This article analyzes why farmers engage in projects promoting drip irrigation kits, even though they appear not to be interested in their water and labor-saving attributes. We combine practice-based theories of innovation with insights from the anthropology of deve…
A Success of Some Sort: Social Enterprises and Drip Irrigation in the Developing World
Enduring Controversy: Small Reservoirs in Sub-Saharan Africa
This article draws from the fields of anthropology of development and sociology of science to bring new light on the discourses and dynamics of agricultural water management in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, it investigates the persistence of a long-standing and apparently contradictory narrative that posits small reservoirs as a solution to the region's agricultural water challenges, despite recurrent reports of their low performance. The pre…
Justice et injustices environnementales
Les crises écologiques, les politiques pour les contrer, la croissance des inégalités résultant de la mondialisation et des politiques libérales ont revitalisé la notion de justice environnementale. Cette notion veut comprendre les interrelations entre les inégalités sociales et l'environnement : quel environnement, où, et pour qui ? Des chercheurs se sont emparé de ce concept d'origine nord-américaine, alors peu connu dans le champ académique fr…
Beyond water, beyond boundaries: Spaces of water management in the Krishna river basin, South India
As demand and competition for water resources increase, the river basin has become the primary unit for water management and planning. While appealing in principle, practical implementation of river basin management and allocation has often been problematic. This paper examines the case of the Krishna basin in South India. It highlights that conflicts over basin water are embedded in a broad reality of planning and development where multiple scal…
Squeezed dry: The historical trajectory of the lower Jordan River basin
River basins
African farmer-led irrigation development: Re-Framing Agricultural Policy and Investment
The past decade has witnessed an intensifying focus on the development of irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa. It follows a 20-year hiatus in the wake of disappointing irrigation performance during the 1970s and 1980s. Persistent low productivity in African agriculture and vulnerability of African food supplies to increasing instability in international commodity markets are driving pan-African agricultural investment initiatives, such as the Compre…
Rooted water collectives: Towards an analytical framework
A Success of Some Sort: Social Enterprises and Drip Irrigation in the Developing World
Beyond water, beyond boundaries: Spaces of water management in the Krishna river basin, South India
As demand and competition for water resources increase, the river basin has become the primary unit for water management and planning. While appealing in principle, practical implementation of river basin management and allocation has often been problematic. This paper examines the case of the Krishna basin in South India. It highlights that conflicts over basin water are embedded in a broad reality of planning and development where multiple scal…
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges
An effective placement of irrigation efficiency in water management will contribute towards meeting the pre-eminent global water challenges of our time such as addressing water scarcity, boosting crop water productivity and reconciling competing water needs between sectors. However, although irrigation efficiency may appear to be a simple measure of performance and imply dramatic positive benefits, it is not straightforward to understand, measure…
A multiplicity ofprek(s): Enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta
In Khmer, the word prek designates a connection between things. In Kandal province in Cambodia, preks crisscross the landscape, connecting rivers with floodplains, supporting rich ecologies and a variety of livelihoods. Drawing on science and technology studies (STS) and critical water research, this paper explores prek(s) as a multiplicity. Rather than taking the prek as a passive object around which various practices occur, we examine how prek(…
A bridge over troubled waters
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public
Mosaic glimpses: Serious games, generous constraints, and sustainable futures in Kandal, Cambodia
This paper uses a series of serious games – a form of participatory modelling designed and played in Kandal, Cambodia - as an entry point for reexamining relations between development projects, participatory formats, landscape transformations, and sustainable futures. Critics of development and participation have shown that participatory formats simplify real-world complexities by rendering them technical. This is also the case for serious games.…
Data Wormholes and Speculative Rice Fields: An Infrastructural Politics of Anticipating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The 2015 Paris declaration obligated international development organizations to assess the climate compatibility of their projects. For irrigation projects, like those negotiated between the Agence Française de Développement , and the Cambodian government in the early 2020s, calculations of estimated greenhouse gas emissions have become important requirements. But how to estimate emissions from future rice fields and the effects of irrigation inf…
Claiming and re-claiming the Ayeyarwady Delta, time and again: The case of Nyaungdone Island, Myanmar
Since 2011 and the transition to civilian government, Myanmar and the Ayeyarwady Delta in particular are witnessing swift and dramatic changes in the modalities of access and use of natural resources. Drawing from political ecology, and on the basis of ethnographic work conducted in Yeinek village tract in the Nyaungdone Township of the Ayeyarwady Delta, this article places recent resources dynamics in a historical perspective. Rather than seeing…
Enduring Controversy: Small Reservoirs in Sub-Saharan Africa
This article draws from the fields of anthropology of development and sociology of science to bring new light on the discourses and dynamics of agricultural water management in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, it investigates the persistence of a long-standing and apparently contradictory narrative that posits small reservoirs as a solution to the region's agricultural water challenges, despite recurrent reports of their low performance. The pre…
Squeezed dry: The historical trajectory of the lower Jordan River basin
River basins
Beyond water, beyond boundaries: Spaces of water management in the Krishna river basin, South India
As demand and competition for water resources increase, the river basin has become the primary unit for water management and planning. While appealing in principle, practical implementation of river basin management and allocation has often been problematic. This paper examines the case of the Krishna basin in South India. It highlights that conflicts over basin water are embedded in a broad reality of planning and development where multiple scal…
Justice et injustices environnementales
Les crises écologiques, les politiques pour les contrer, la croissance des inégalités résultant de la mondialisation et des politiques libérales ont revitalisé la notion de justice environnementale. Cette notion veut comprendre les interrelations entre les inégalités sociales et l'environnement : quel environnement, où, et pour qui ? Des chercheurs se sont emparé de ce concept d'origine nord-américaine, alors peu connu dans le champ académique fr…
Enduring Controversy: Small Reservoirs in Sub-Saharan Africa
This article draws from the fields of anthropology of development and sociology of science to bring new light on the discourses and dynamics of agricultural water management in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, it investigates the persistence of a long-standing and apparently contradictory narrative that posits small reservoirs as a solution to the region's agricultural water challenges, despite recurrent reports of their low performance. The pre…
A Success of Some Sort: Social Enterprises and Drip Irrigation in the Developing World
Smallholder Drip Irrigation in Burkina Faso: The Role of Development Brokers
Smallholder drip irrigation is widely held as a promising technology for water saving, poverty reduction and food security, despite a dearth of evidence of benefits to farmers, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In this article, we document three development programmes promoting drip irrigation in Burkina Faso. Using actor network theory and insights from critical development studies, we show that development brokers play a key role in aligning in…
Dynamique des postures de chercheurs-engagés: Retours sur la participation dans les politiques de l’eau au Burkina Faso
Le positionnement des chercheurs et des praticiens de la participation a fait l’objet de nombreuses analyses soulignant la pluralité et la complémentarité des postures adoptées notamment vis-à-vis des jeux de pouvoir. Cet article insiste sur l’aspect dynamique des postures de deux « chercheurs-engagés » ayant piloté un projet de recherche pour le développement, en appui à la politique de gestion intégrée des ressources en eau (GIRE) au Burkina Fa…
Farmers’ Logics in Engaging With Projects Promoting Drip Irrigation Kits in Burkina Faso
Development agencies enthusiastically promote micro-drip irrigation as an affordable water and labor-saving device, yet most farmers stop using it as soon as development projects end. This article analyzes why farmers engage in projects promoting drip irrigation kits, even though they appear not to be interested in their water and labor-saving attributes. We combine practice-based theories of innovation with insights from the anthropology of deve…
Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development
Mythes sociotechniques et développement: Introduction au numéro spécial
saharienne, dans la rgion mditerranenne et en Asie centrale au cours des dix dernires a es
Sociotechnical Myths in Development: Introduction to a Special Issue
comments on an earlier version of the introduction
Retour réflexif sur une expérience interdisciplinaire exploratoire: L'atelier « Interdisciplinarité autour des petits barrages »
Au cours d'un atelier, qui a eu lieu à Montpellier en décembre 2015, destiné à partager des expériences de recherche sur un objet hydroagricole, le petit barrage, une vingtaine de chercheurs d'horizons disciplinaires variés ont interrogé leurs pratiques et conceptions de l'interdisciplinarité entre sciences de la nature et sciences de la société. Cette expérience exploratoire a mis en lumière deux postures interdisciplinaires différentes. La prem…
African farmer-led irrigation development: Re-Framing Agricultural Policy and Investment
The past decade has witnessed an intensifying focus on the development of irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa. It follows a 20-year hiatus in the wake of disappointing irrigation performance during the 1970s and 1980s. Persistent low productivity in African agriculture and vulnerability of African food supplies to increasing instability in international commodity markets are driving pan-African agricultural investment initiatives, such as the Compre…
Entre politiques publiques et matérialité: Associations d’usagers et infrastructures d’irrigation au Cambodge
Depuis plus de trois décennies, le modèle de gestion participative de l’irrigation promu par gouvernements et bailleurs de fond rencontre de nombreuses difficultés. Partant du constat que la gestion de l’irrigation présente des dimensions tant techniques que sociales, nous mobilisons les champs de la political ecology et des études des sciences et techniques et montrons qu’une politique publique prend de multiples facettes à l’aune des conditions…
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges
An effective placement of irrigation efficiency in water management will contribute towards meeting the pre-eminent global water challenges of our time such as addressing water scarcity, boosting crop water productivity and reconciling competing water needs between sectors. However, although irrigation efficiency may appear to be a simple measure of performance and imply dramatic positive benefits, it is not straightforward to understand, measure…
Rooted water collectives: Towards an analytical framework
Claiming and re-claiming the Ayeyarwady Delta, time and again: The case of Nyaungdone Island, Myanmar
Since 2011 and the transition to civilian government, Myanmar and the Ayeyarwady Delta in particular are witnessing swift and dramatic changes in the modalities of access and use of natural resources. Drawing from political ecology, and on the basis of ethnographic work conducted in Yeinek village tract in the Nyaungdone Township of the Ayeyarwady Delta, this article places recent resources dynamics in a historical perspective. Rather than seeing…
A bridge over troubled waters
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public
Slippery land, ever-shifting boundaries: Claiming and accessing alluvial (is)lands in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar
In Myanmar, since the transition to a quasi-civilian government in 2011, resolving land disputes has been high on the political agenda. Grounded in Political Ecology and inspired by Science and Technology Studies, this article investigates the critical geography of the strategies through which alluvial (is)lands in the Ayeyarwady Delta are made into disputed resources. This interdisciplinary research brings together an historical analysis of publ…
Mosaic glimpses: Serious games, generous constraints, and sustainable futures in Kandal, Cambodia
This paper uses a series of serious games – a form of participatory modelling designed and played in Kandal, Cambodia - as an entry point for reexamining relations between development projects, participatory formats, landscape transformations, and sustainable futures. Critics of development and participation have shown that participatory formats simplify real-world complexities by rendering them technical. This is also the case for serious games.…
A multiplicity ofprek(s): Enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta
In Khmer, the word prek designates a connection between things. In Kandal province in Cambodia, preks crisscross the landscape, connecting rivers with floodplains, supporting rich ecologies and a variety of livelihoods. Drawing on science and technology studies (STS) and critical water research, this paper explores prek(s) as a multiplicity. Rather than taking the prek as a passive object around which various practices occur, we examine how prek(…
A reflexive collaborative workshop on agroecology narratives and researchers’ postures
Agroecology has multiple interpretations and goals, driven by social movements, political contexts, and scientific needs. Agroecological transition processes generate tensions between social movements and institutionalisation processes. Researchers are thus caught between two potentially contradictory tasks: (i) advising policy-makers and (ii) supporting farmers and stakeholders in their endogenous trajectories. Here, we review a reflexive worksh…
Tailor-Made Pesticides. Understanding the Pesticides Market in a Productive Agricultural Region of the Cambodian Mekong Delta
This article draws on approaches in the anthropology of things and the anthropology of capitalism. It brings to light fragments of the supply chains of pesticides in one of the most productive agricultural regions in Cambodia. Based on an ethnographic study conducted from November 2021 to December 2022 with farmers, petty retailers and marketing agents enrolled in the pesticides sector, this article shows how a study of local interactions between…
Data Wormholes and Speculative Rice Fields: An Infrastructural Politics of Anticipating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The 2015 Paris declaration obligated international development organizations to assess the climate compatibility of their projects. For irrigation projects, like those negotiated between the Agence Française de Développement , and the Cambodian government in the early 2020s, calculations of estimated greenhouse gas emissions have become important requirements. But how to estimate emissions from future rice fields and the effects of irrigation inf…
Political science (15 works) · Geography (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Cambodian History and Society (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Environmental Science (7 works)