Andres Verzijl
Biographic Data
| ID | 829640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andres Verzijl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andres |
| FAMILY NAME | Verzijl |
| SIGNATURE | VERZIJL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1492-375X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Tale of Three Tanks: A Story about Rejuvenation, Research and Responsiveness in the Kaveri Delta, India
This paper traces contemporary grassroots efforts to rejuvenate eris, or irrigation tanks, in the Kaveri Delta in India, through a detailed case study of three interconnected tanks: Mudavan, Ayyampettai, and Shikkapattu. Drawing on mixed methods—including interviews, participant observation, Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis, and auto-ethnographic reflection—we analyze this case of tank rejuvenation as a version of care. Guided by four…
Caring for Groundwater: How Care Can Expand and Transform Groundwater Governance
Efforts to measure and regulate groundwaters and irrigators are notoriously ineffective. The starting point of this article, therefore, is to question the continued faith in techno-managerial solutions to groundwater depletion. We discuss the potential of the conceptual vocabulary of ‘care’ to complement, refresh and expand ways of talking about and doing groundwater governance. Mobilizing a diverse range of examples from places where pressures o…
Caring for water in Northern Peru: On fragile infrastructures and the diverse work involved in irrigation
The term control used to be central to the scholarship on modern water management. More recently, however, scholars have remarked that the world is too unstable and capricious for control to ever fully succeed. They propose that technologically facilitating water to flow depends instead on care. Building on this, we here propose that holding on to a single catch-all theoretical concept, even if it is 'care', does not suffice. Instead, analytical …
Transformations to groundwater sustainability: From individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers
If the success of agricultural intensification continues to rely on the depletion of aquifers and exploitation of (female) labour, transformations to groundwater sustainability will be impossible to achieve. Hence, the development of new groundwater imaginaries, based on alternative ways of organizing society-water relations is highly important. This paper argues that a comparative documentation of grass-roots initiatives to care for, share or re…
Water movements: Fluidity and visibility among Andean worlds
FEDEH: Frente de Defensa de la Región Huancavelica.Advocacy platform that targets social and environmental injustices
Templos modernos y espacios sagrados: Territorios hidrosociales entrelazados en Cuchoquesera, Perú
This paper shows how a modern hydraulic development project interfered with local understandings of place, water, and hydrosocial territory in the Andean region of Ayacucho, Peru. Our analysis centres on two logics regarding hydraulic structures and related practices that play a crucial role in the constitution of the area's divergent waterscapes: a large embankment dam and an "ushnu platform". We present the practices and technologies deployed b…
Grassroots scalar politics in the Peruvian Andes
This chapter shows how Andean communities, in defence of their waters, successfully engage in grassroots scalar politics to create and cultivate alliances and associations with national NGOs, regional governments, transnational actors such as the Latin American Water Tribunal (TLA) and broader water education and solidarity networks. The lens of grassroots scalar politics offers an entry point to improve the understanding of the communities' dyna…
The powers of water-user associations: On multiplicity, fluidity, and durability in the Peruvian Andes
In this article we use insights from institutional bricolage and actor network theory to make sense of an Andean water user association (WUA) and its bricoleurs in the Region of Ayacucho, Peru. Rather than being designed and clearly defined, we see natural resource institutions as continuously performed and patched together, through heterogeneous elements and practices, by those that live, experience and enact these institutions every day and by …
The powers of water-user associations: On multiplicity, fluidity, and durability in the Peruvian Andes
In this article we use insights from institutional bricolage and actor network theory to make sense of an Andean water user association (WUA) and its bricoleurs in the Region of Ayacucho, Peru. Rather than being designed and clearly defined, we see natural resource institutions as continuously performed and patched together, through heterogeneous elements and practices, by those that live, experience and enact these institutions every day and by …
Grassroots scalar politics: Insights from peasant water struggles in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes
The System Nobody Sees: Irrigated Wetland Management and Alpaca Herding in the Peruvian Andes
Increasingly, attention in regional, national, and international water governance arenas has focused on high-altitude wetlands. However, existing local water management practices in these wetlands are often overlooked. This article looks at the irrigation activities of alpaca herders in the community of Ccarhuancho in the Central Andes of Peru. For more than two centuries, they have been constructing small-scale irrigation canals to maintain and …
Grassroots scalar politics: Insights from peasant water struggles in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes
Caring for water in Northern Peru: On fragile infrastructures and the diverse work involved in irrigation
The term control used to be central to the scholarship on modern water management. More recently, however, scholars have remarked that the world is too unstable and capricious for control to ever fully succeed. They propose that technologically facilitating water to flow depends instead on care. Building on this, we here propose that holding on to a single catch-all theoretical concept, even if it is 'care', does not suffice. Instead, analytical …
Transformations to groundwater sustainability: From individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers
If the success of agricultural intensification continues to rely on the depletion of aquifers and exploitation of (female) labour, transformations to groundwater sustainability will be impossible to achieve. Hence, the development of new groundwater imaginaries, based on alternative ways of organizing society-water relations is highly important. This paper argues that a comparative documentation of grass-roots initiatives to care for, share or re…
Water movements: Fluidity and visibility among Andean worlds
FEDEH: Frente de Defensa de la Región Huancavelica.Advocacy platform that targets social and environmental injustices
Caring for Groundwater: How Care Can Expand and Transform Groundwater Governance
Efforts to measure and regulate groundwaters and irrigators are notoriously ineffective. The starting point of this article, therefore, is to question the continued faith in techno-managerial solutions to groundwater depletion. We discuss the potential of the conceptual vocabulary of ‘care’ to complement, refresh and expand ways of talking about and doing groundwater governance. Mobilizing a diverse range of examples from places where pressures o…
Templos modernos y espacios sagrados: Territorios hidrosociales entrelazados en Cuchoquesera, Perú
This paper shows how a modern hydraulic development project interfered with local understandings of place, water, and hydrosocial territory in the Andean region of Ayacucho, Peru. Our analysis centres on two logics regarding hydraulic structures and related practices that play a crucial role in the constitution of the area's divergent waterscapes: a large embankment dam and an "ushnu platform". We present the practices and technologies deployed b…
The System Nobody Sees: Irrigated Wetland Management and Alpaca Herding in the Peruvian Andes
Increasingly, attention in regional, national, and international water governance arenas has focused on high-altitude wetlands. However, existing local water management practices in these wetlands are often overlooked. This article looks at the irrigation activities of alpaca herders in the community of Ccarhuancho in the Central Andes of Peru. For more than two centuries, they have been constructing small-scale irrigation canals to maintain and …
The powers of water-user associations: On multiplicity, fluidity, and durability in the Peruvian Andes
In this article we use insights from institutional bricolage and actor network theory to make sense of an Andean water user association (WUA) and its bricoleurs in the Region of Ayacucho, Peru. Rather than being designed and clearly defined, we see natural resource institutions as continuously performed and patched together, through heterogeneous elements and practices, by those that live, experience and enact these institutions every day and by …
The powers of water-user associations: On multiplicity, fluidity, and durability in the Peruvian Andes
In this article we use insights from institutional bricolage and actor network theory to make sense of an Andean water user association (WUA) and its bricoleurs in the Region of Ayacucho, Peru. Rather than being designed and clearly defined, we see natural resource institutions as continuously performed and patched together, through heterogeneous elements and practices, by those that live, experience and enact these institutions every day and by …
Grassroots scalar politics: Insights from peasant water struggles in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes
Grassroots scalar politics in the Peruvian Andes
This chapter shows how Andean communities, in defence of their waters, successfully engage in grassroots scalar politics to create and cultivate alliances and associations with national NGOs, regional governments, transnational actors such as the Latin American Water Tribunal (TLA) and broader water education and solidarity networks. The lens of grassroots scalar politics offers an entry point to improve the understanding of the communities' dyna…
Templos modernos y espacios sagrados: Territorios hidrosociales entrelazados en Cuchoquesera, Perú
This paper shows how a modern hydraulic development project interfered with local understandings of place, water, and hydrosocial territory in the Andean region of Ayacucho, Peru. Our analysis centres on two logics regarding hydraulic structures and related practices that play a crucial role in the constitution of the area's divergent waterscapes: a large embankment dam and an "ushnu platform". We present the practices and technologies deployed b…
Water movements: Fluidity and visibility among Andean worlds
FEDEH: Frente de Defensa de la Región Huancavelica.Advocacy platform that targets social and environmental injustices
Transformations to groundwater sustainability: From individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers
If the success of agricultural intensification continues to rely on the depletion of aquifers and exploitation of (female) labour, transformations to groundwater sustainability will be impossible to achieve. Hence, the development of new groundwater imaginaries, based on alternative ways of organizing society-water relations is highly important. This paper argues that a comparative documentation of grass-roots initiatives to care for, share or re…
Caring for water in Northern Peru: On fragile infrastructures and the diverse work involved in irrigation
The term control used to be central to the scholarship on modern water management. More recently, however, scholars have remarked that the world is too unstable and capricious for control to ever fully succeed. They propose that technologically facilitating water to flow depends instead on care. Building on this, we here propose that holding on to a single catch-all theoretical concept, even if it is 'care', does not suffice. Instead, analytical …
Caring for Groundwater: How Care Can Expand and Transform Groundwater Governance
Efforts to measure and regulate groundwaters and irrigators are notoriously ineffective. The starting point of this article, therefore, is to question the continued faith in techno-managerial solutions to groundwater depletion. We discuss the potential of the conceptual vocabulary of ‘care’ to complement, refresh and expand ways of talking about and doing groundwater governance. Mobilizing a diverse range of examples from places where pressures o…
The Tale of Three Tanks: A Story about Rejuvenation, Research and Responsiveness in the Kaveri Delta, India
This paper traces contemporary grassroots efforts to rejuvenate eris, or irrigation tanks, in the Kaveri Delta in India, through a detailed case study of three interconnected tanks: Mudavan, Ayyampettai, and Shikkapattu. Drawing on mixed methods—including interviews, participant observation, Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis, and auto-ethnographic reflection—we analyze this case of tank rejuvenation as a version of care. Guided by four…
Water Governance and Infrastructure (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)