Explaining societal change through bricolage: Transformations in regimes of water governance
Explaining societal change through bricolage: Transformations in regimes of water governance
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10.1177/25148486221143666
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2022-12
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P. Mayaux;M. Dajani;F. Cleaver;Mohamed Naouri;M. Kuper;T. Hartani
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P. Mayaux;M. Dajani;F. Cleaver;Mohamed Naouri;M. Kuper;T. Hartani
本文的动机是迫切需要了解如何用水和灌溉农业可以在社会和环境的可持续发展的利益进行改造。这种变化是如何产生的？特别是，鉴于简化的、国家发起的社会工程项目的结果通常好坏参半，将社会治理制度的变革扎根于农民的日常实践的潜力有多大？在本文中，我们以新颖的方式解决这些持久的问题。我们认为，通常适用于分析社区资源管理的概念，可以开发和部署，以解释广泛的社会变革过程。为了说明这一点，我们借鉴了阿尔及利亚撒哈拉地区和叙利亚被占领的戈兰高地的灌溉农业的案例研究。我们的案例分析提供了对制度，技术和观念上的拼凑过程如何相互依存，国家如何参与其中，以及多个拼凑实例如何随着时间的推移而积累，以产生有意义的系统性变化的见解。最后，然而，我们反映了更大的倾向，当代bricolage重新平衡权力关系，而不是开辟道路，以更生态的农业实践。
This paper is motivated by the pressing need to understand how water use and irrigated agriculture can be transformed in the interests of both social and environmental sustainability. How can such change come about? In particular, given the generally mixed results of simplified, state-initiated projects of social engineering, what is the potential for transformations in societal regimes of governance to be anchored in the everyday practices of farmers? In this paper, we address these enduring questions in novel ways. We argue that the concept of bricolage, commonly applied to analysing community management of resources, can be developed and deployed to explain broad societal processes of change. To illustrate this, we draw on case studies of irrigated agriculture in Saharan areas of Algeria and in the occupied Golan Heights in Syria. Our case analysis offers insights into how processes of institutional, technological and ideational bricolage entwine, how the state becomes implicated in them and how multiple instances of bricolage accumulate over time to produce meaningful systemic change. In concluding, however, we reflect on the greater propensity of contemporary bricolage to rebalance power relations than to open the way to more ecological farming practices.