Producing ethical water

Anti-mining activism and conflicts over municipal water provisioning in Cuenca, Ecuador

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ID2285287
AutoresTeresa A Velásquez (California State University, San Bernardino, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume27
Fascículo4
Páginas575-586
Data de publicação2022-12-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1935-4932 • E-ISSN: 1935-4940
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jlca.12646
OpenAlexW4317534780
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas31

When gold deposits were confirmed in a community watershed in 2005, water became a politically charged arena for anti-mining activism. This article follows the outcomes of a 2014 Ecuadorian water law on conflicts over water provisioning. Arguments about water's material properties and social qualities were deployed by government, municipal, and local actors in contests over who had legitimate authority to govern rural water systems. Claims about "clean" or "untreated" water-about water as a human right or as ethical solidarity-are invoked in disputes over whether drinking water should be managed by the municipality or the community. I argue that mining conflicts shape the way communities respond to the municipalization of their water supplies, leading to new forms of resource politics encapsulated in the term "ethical water." The article illustrates the mutual constitution of conflicts over mining and water provisioning and how anti-extractive agendas are shaping Andean water governance

Business · Constitution · Corporate governance · Environmental planning · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Provisioning · Solidarity · Water resources · Water supply · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Engineering · Environmental Science · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Public Administration · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology · Environmental Engineering

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