THE WATER POWERS OF WISCONSIN
1 Introduction: water-control battlefields 1 11 The contested field of water rights: norms, power, networks and discourses 1 12 Investigating water control in the Andean countries 22 13 This book: from the powers of illusion to the forces of ‘con-fusion’ 29 2 Water rights in collectively managed Andean systems 39 21 Ceceles versus Tzaticahuán: conflicts over the creation of water rights 39 22 Water rights and legal complexity 43 23 Water rights’ embeddedness 45 24 Collective and individual rights 49 25 Acquiring water rights 50 26 Water rights contents: access and control rights 51 27 Water rights and property regimes 58 28 Fluid conditions and dynamic relationships: water rights in action 59 29 Creating and re-creating water rights 64 3 Regimes of water truth: interdisciplinarity, domains of water control and hydrosocial cycle politics 71 31 Balcompata: diverging truths about the heart of irrigation water control 71 32 Domains of water knowledge and control 78 33 A true love story: Viracocha, Pachamama and the hydro-cosmological cycle 80 34 Interdisciplinary ontologies, water control domains and hydrosocial politics 89 35 Practice, power and process 99 4 Embeddedness of water control in the Andean peasant economy 105 41 Introduction: the rationality underlying irrationally inverted gro-ecology 105 42 Agro-ecology and social relationships: hydrosocial territories and ertical economies 108 43 The organization of farmer-controlled irrigation systems in the Andes 111 44 The Andean peasant economy 114 45 Regimes of reciprocity: between mutual support and concealed subjugation 119 46 Construction and deconstruction of the Andean ‘community’ 123 5 The hydro-politics of identity: coercive and capillary powers 136 51 Introduction: Don Fermín and the politics of identity 137 52 The expropriation of creation: eroding control over collective labor and reciprocity in communal water control 138 53 A power regime transition: coercive and capillary power modes 146 54 Modern power in ancient times, ancient power in modern times: the hydro-politics of identity 156 6 Panoptic power and the moralization of water-control technology 166 61 Panopticism and the hydropolitical dream scheme 167 62 Modules and tertiary canals: channeling power 175 63 The power of illusion 190 7 Expertocratizing local water rights 195 71 Subject- and fantasy-loss: the unbearable lightness of hydro-policy modeling 196 72 Objectified knowledge and utilitarian reason: ‘Some have to suffer for majority well-being’ 199 73 Newspeak and the expertocratization of water rights 206 74 Modern water rights and water scarcity generation 216 75 Producing modern water needs and practicing self-reproach 220 76 Lack of imagination 221 8 Neoliberalizing collective water rights and creating spaces of resistance 226 81 Introduction: from gamonalismo to modern water grabbing: pishtaku metamorphosis 227 82 Privatization and deterritorialization: new policies with ancient roots 230 83 Recent waves of privatization policies in the Andes 234 84 Collective rights and privatization 240 85 Resistance 246 86 Day-to-day water defense through ‘water rights pluralism’ and ‘concealed spaces’ 248 87 Reflections 254 9 Resistance as ‘con-fusion’: mimesis, mimicry and contesting the dream scheme 259 91 Licto: challenging the elite’s hydropolitical power 260 92 Rosa 264 93 Decolonizing water community, culture and identity 271 94 Remoralizing irrigation infrastructure 276 95 Inés: water rights and system design as a never-ending struggle 282 96 Resistance as ‘con-fusion’: mimicry, nonconformity and hydrosocial rootstock territoriality 289 97 Reflections: recipes, rights and resistance 297 10 Conclusions and reflections: powers of illusion and forces of con-fusion 303 101 The reality of reality 304 102 Multilayered water-rights battlefields 306 103 Powers of illusion: coercive/capillary domestication and powerful dream schemes 308 104 The reality of fiction: beyond paternalism, modernization and mothernization 313 105 Fiction of reality: undertows, mimicry and ‘con-fusion’ 315 106 Realizing alternative reality 319 References 324