The Values of Water: Development Cultures and Indigenous Cultures in Highland Ecuador
The Values of Water: Development Cultures and Indigenous Cultures in Highland Ecuador
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水的价值：厄瓜多尔高地的发展文化和土著文化
DOI：
10.1353/lar.2012.0015
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发表时间：
2012
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0.8
通讯作者：
R. Andolina
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作者：
R. Andolina
本文探讨了象征性的转变和物质后果的灌溉发展项目，旨在增强土著人民在卡尼亚尔，厄瓜多尔。它认为，该项目深化了市场社会，并在更大程度上复制了殖民主义，而不是赋予土著人民权力，但土著人民找到了挪用项目资源和将市场嵌入社会生活替代原则的方法。通过国际发展政策的新自由主义霸权和通过土著运动纳入市场理性，市场社会得到了深化。殖民主义通过知识和技能的等级代表重现，使人想起当地土著领导人内化的长期存在的对土著人的陈规定型观念。这两个过程都是通过价值建构和评价行为展开的。灌溉发展项目中传达的市场理想与当地土著人民在项目结束后实际参与的现有市场条件之间存在差距，这限制了土著人民的具体赋权。
This article examines the symbolic transformations and material consequences of an irrigation development project designed to empower indigenous peoples in Cañar, Ecuador. It argues that the project deepened market society and reproduced colonialism more than it empowered indigenous peoples, but indigenous people found ways to appropriate project resources and embed the market in alternative principles of social life. Market society deepened through the neoliberal hegemony of international development policy and through the indigenous movement’s incorporation of market rationalities. Colonialism recurred through hierarchical representations of knowledge and skills reminiscent of long-standing stereotypes of natives, which local indigenous leaders internalized. Both processes unfolded through constructions of value and acts of evaluation. The gap between the market ideal communicated in the irrigation development project and the conditions of actually existing markets that local indigenous people engaged after project closure limited the concrete empowerment of indigenous peoples.