Social Property in the Cochabamba Water War, Bolivia 2000

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4953565
AutoresMassimiliano Tomba (0000-0003-4116-061X, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume28
Fascículo1
Páginas73-86
Data de publicação2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAngelaki (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0969725x.2023.2167785
OpenAlexW4321453344
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas15

The Cochabamba water war in 2000 was the first water war of the twenty-first century. During the mobilizations in Bolivia, a factory workers’ manifesto read: “We don’t want private property nor state property, but self-management and social property.” The social practices of many Cochabambinos and Cochabambinas did not defend water as an object. They supported forms of life in common and a way of practicing democracy in the politics of presence. They recalled traditional usos y costumbres, which have been reconfigured in their encounter with other unprecedented practices, situations, and legal systems. Finally, the water war insurgents aimed to restore another practice of democracy and different property relations. Social property (propiedad social) was born in the social and political context of the water war mobilizations. In this article, I investigate social property as a practice that exceeds the current legal definition of ownership and discloses new legal forms of relationship with water. Methodologically, it is about extracting theory from practice - extracting from concrete social practices new concepts that require thinking about

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Epistemology · Manifesto · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy · Social practice · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Water Governance and Infrastructure