摘要

We examine the divergent modes of conceptualizing, valuing and representing the paramo highlands of Santurban, Colombia, as a struggle over hydrosocial territory. Paramo residents, multinational companies, government and scientists deploy territorial representations and valuation languages that interact and conflict with each other. Government politicians and neo-institutional scientists wish to reconcile diverging interests using a universalistic territorial representation, through game theory. This generates a hydrosocial imaginary that renders invisible actors' power differentials that lie at the core of the territorial resource use conflict. We conclude that this governmentality' endeavour enables subtle, silent water rights re-allocation.

  • 出版日期2016-1-2