Socio-Material Bricolage

(Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures

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ID12959889
AutoresAdnan Mirhanoğlu (0000-0002-3560-5339, KU Leuven, autor correspondente), Gül Özerol (0000-0002-4805-6666, University of Twente), Jaime Hoogesteger (0000-0002-6784-0552, Wageningen University & Research), Pieter Van Den Broeck (0000-0002-3388-0759, KU Leuven), Maarten Loopmans (0000-0002-7157-5608, KU Leuven)
Ano2023
Volume17
Fascículo1
Páginas69-86
Data de publicação2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of the Commons (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1875-0281 • E-ISSN: 1875-0281
EditoraUbiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5334/ijc.1188
OpenAlexW4321603359
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas40

Drip irrigation is often considered a technological solution to increase water use efficiency and crop productivity. However, all too often, its social and institutional entanglements are ignored. This paper treats drip irrigation as a socio-material assemblage and discusses the social and institutional changes triggered by the introduction of drip irrigation infrastructure in Ağlasun, a rural town located in the southwest of Turkey. Through an ethnographic study, we investigate how the switch from surface irrigation to drip irrigation entails an interaction of institutional re-arrangements, material infrastructures and strategizing actors to reshuffle the operation and maintenance of irrigation infrastructures, water distribution rules and water pricing. Expanding the concept of institutional bricolage to socio-material bricolage, we offer a nuanced understanding of how material infrastructures and institutions are mutually shaped by individual and collective agency

Agency (philosophy · Bricolage · Business · Distribution (mathematics · Drip irrigation · Economic growth · Economics · Irrigation · Productivity · Social science · Sociology · Mathematics · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Water resources management and optimization · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies