El libro Local Experiences of Mining in Peru: Social and Spatial Transformations in the Andes nos muestra cómo las experiencias y representaciones van construyendo y reconstruyendo los sitios mineros. Para ello, el autor nos incorpora a los debates sobre los cambios institucionales, políticos, económicos o culturales que la minería corporativa contemporánea ha impulsado en localidades andinas.

The agro-export boom in the coastal region of Ica has caused two interrelated processes: the generation of water scarcity scenarios and the emergency of the agro-exporter group as a new social actor. The role assigned to agro-exporters in the narrative of regional development has given them a dominant position in the management of Ica water resources. This has generated a re-configurationof social and political relationships at the local space that has allowed them to be able of even contest State’s efforts to regulate groundwater use. Thus, the questions guiding this research are: how the agro-exporter group has concentrated water power in Ica? And how do they exercise this power? This paper argues that control over groundwater resources has fallen into the hands of the agro-exporter group due to their capacity to concentrate and exercise three dimensions of power: economic capacity, ...

This article introduces the special volume of the journal Anthropologica  dedicated to the culture, politics, and political ecology of water. For this, fundamental concepts, such as hydrosocial territory and scarcity, as well as institutional processes, such as the implementation of governance models of water resources, necessary to analyze and understand the social phenomena associated with water are reviewed. This review integrates the presentations of the articles that make up the special volume.

The book Local Experiences of Mining in Peru: Social and Spatial Transformations in the Andes shows us how experiences and representations are building and rebuilding mining sites. For this, the author incorporates us into the debates on the institutional, political, economic or cultural changes that contemporary corporate mining has promoted in Andean localities.

El boom agroexportador en Ica ha disparado dos procesos interrelacionados: la generación de escenarios de escasez hídrica y la emergencia de un nuevo actor social en la región, el grupo agroexportador. Esto ha generado una reconfiguración de las relaciones sociales y políticas en el espacio local, donde los agroexportadores se han posicionado como el actor dominante en la gestión de los recursos hídricos subterráneos, disputando incluso los esfuerzos de regulación del Estado. Así, la pregunta que guía esta investigación es ¿cómo los agroexportadores han concentrado poder hídrico en Ica? y ¿cómo ejercen este poder? El artículo argumenta que el poder hídrico surge a partir del control del agua subterránea, control que ha recaído en manos del grupo agroexportador gracias a su capacidad de concentrar y ejercer tres dimensiones de poder: la capacidad económica, el conoci...

This article introduces the special volume of the journal Anthropologica dedicated to the culture, politics, and political ecology of water. For this, fundamental concepts, such as hydrosocial territory and scarcity, as well as institutional processes, such as the implementation of governance models of water resources, necessary to analyze and understand the social phenomena associated with water are reviewed. This review integrates the presentations of the articles that make up the special volume.

The agro-export boom in the coastal region of Ica has caused two interrelated processes: the generation of water scarcity scenarios and the emergency of the agro-exporter group as a new social actor. The role assigned to agro-exporters in the narrative of regional development has given them a dominant position in the management of Ica water resources. This has generated a re-configurationof social and political relationships at the local space that has allowed them to be able of even contest State’s efforts to regulate groundwater use. Thus, the questions guiding this research are: how the agro-exporter group has concentrated water power in Ica? And how do they exercise this power? This paper argues that control over groundwater resources has fallen into the hands of the agro-exporter group due to their capacity to concentrate and exercise three dimensions of power: economic capacity, ...

This article introduces the special volume of the journal Anthropologica  dedicated to the culture, politics, and political ecology of water. For this, fundamental concepts, such as hydrosocial territory and scarcity, as well as institutional processes, such as the implementation of governance models of water resources, necessary to analyze and understand the social phenomena associated with water are reviewed. This review integrates the presentations of the articles that make up the special volume.

The book Local Experiences of Mining in Peru: Social and Spatial Transformations in the Andes shows us how experiences and representations are building and rebuilding mining sites. For this, the author incorporates us into the debates on the institutional, political, economic or cultural changes that contemporary corporate mining has promoted in Andean localities.