Who Fought For Water and What Did They Fight For? A Comparative Analysis of Open Water Conflicts in Four South American Countries between 2000 and 2011
Water conflicts have mostly been studied by focusing on case studies or by comparing conflicts sharing a common issue (like privatization of water services, mining contamination or management of water services). This article takes a different standpoint by at once considering water as a unique and m...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut des Amériques
2020-03-01
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| Series: | IdeAs |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/7724 |
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| Summary: | Water conflicts have mostly been studied by focusing on case studies or by comparing conflicts sharing a common issue (like privatization of water services, mining contamination or management of water services). This article takes a different standpoint by at once considering water as a unique and multidimensional object of conflict. Its first main contribution is to present an overview of open social conflicts related to (any dimension of) water that took place in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru between January 2000 and December 2011. This overview is useful to put in perspective in-depth studies of specific conflicts and the rise of “water crises” in the 2010s. Second, the article contributes to the understanding of how and why the actors mobilizing and the dimensions of water under conflict vary overtime and between countries. The empirical analysis builds on a systematic double review of the chronologies of social conflicts published by the Observatorio Social de América Latina of the Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO). |
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| ISSN: | 1950-5701 |