Grassroots scalar politics: Insights from peasant water struggles in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes
Grassroots scalar politics: Insights from peasant water struggles in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes
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草根标量政治：厄瓜多尔和秘鲁安第斯山脉农民用水斗争的见解
DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.03.013
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
A. Verzijl
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作者：
Jaime Hoogesteger;A. Verzijl
基于安第斯秘鲁和厄瓜多尔农民和土著社区为水资源而斗争的见解，在这篇文章中，我们认为，基层利益的捍卫-以及与之一起推进更公平的治理-在很大程度上取决于这些群体参与草根等级政治的能力。随着对安第斯山脉水资源的压力越来越大，许多农村农民和土著社区的用水受到威胁。越来越多的人认识到，他们获得水的机会和相关利益植根于更广泛的区域和国家政治、法律的框架和水政策之中，这促使许多社区和农民用水者协会与其他用水者、政府机构和非政府行为者结成网络和联盟。为了更好地理解这些（和其他）基层斗争和战略，在这篇文章中，我们发展了基层政治的概念，我们用它作为一个透镜来分析两个案例研究。在厄瓜多尔，我们介绍了钦博拉索省的用水者如何通过巩固省用水者协会联合会Interjuntas-Chimborazo及其网络来维护自己的利益。然后，我们专注于如何与Interjuntas-Chimborazo的支持下，Chambo灌溉系统的水用户协会捍卫自己的历史水分配。在秘鲁，我们分析了阿亚库乔联邦水用户协会（JUDRA）的构造和成就，并介绍了如何在万卡韦利卡地区的Ccharhuancho社区，设法捍卫其沃茨和领土对伊卡沿海灌溉部门。
Based on insights from peasant and indigenous communities’ struggles for water in Andean Peru and Ecuador, in this article we argue that the defense of grassroots interests -and with it the advancement of more equitable governance- greatly hinges on the capacity of these groups to engage ingrassroots scalar politics. With increasing pressure on water resources in the Andes, the access to water of many rural peasant and indigenous communities is being threatened. The growing realization that their access to water and related interests are embedded in broader regional and national politics, legal frameworks and water policies, has led many communities and peasant water user associations to engage in networks and create alliances with other water users, governmental institutions and non-governmental actors. To better understand these (and other) grassroots struggles and strategies, in this contribution we develop the concept ofgrassroots scalar politics, which we use as a lens to analyze two case studies. In Ecuador we present how water users of the province of Chimborazo have defended their interests through the consolidation of the Provincial Water Users Associations’ Federation Interjuntas-Chimborazo and its networks. Then we focus on how with the support of Interjuntas-Chimborazo the Water Users Association of the Chambo irrigation system defended their historical water allocation. In Peru we analyze the conformation and achievements of the federative Water Users Association of Ayacucho (JUDRA) and present how the community of Ccharhuancho in the region of Huancavelica, managed to defend its waters and territory against the coastal irrigation sector of Ica.