Collective irrigation reloaded. Re-collection and re-moralization of water management after privatization in Spain |
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| Institution: | 1. Centro Valenciano de Estudios del Riego, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 València, Spain;2. Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;3. CEDLA Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, The Netherlands;4. Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;5. Centro Valenciano de Estudios del Riego, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain;1. Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa, Via C. Ridolfi, 10, 56124, Pisa, Italy;2. Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avda. Vicuña Mackenna, 4860, Santiago, Chile;3. Departamento de Matemáticas para la Economía y la Empresa, Universidad de Valencia, Avda. Tarongers, S/N, Valencia, Spain;1. Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain;2. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain;1. Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK;2. Estudis d''Economia i Empresa and Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain;3. Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice (BCNUEJ), Spain;4. Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK;5. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegraphenberg A 31, 14473 Potsdam, Germany |
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| Abstract: | In recent decades, water has been subjected to different commodification and de-collectivization processes. Increasingly, this is also affecting collective irrigation water management. Critical analysis of this privatization and de-collectivization wave in the irrigation sector has mainly focused on neoliberal institutional policies and market-oriented legislation. However, subtly and silently but equally determinant, the adoption of water-saving technologies is fostering the penetration of private enterprise and market-based governance into these hydro-social settings. This paper discusses this phenomenon through a case study of the community of Senyera in Valencia, Spain, tracking the privatization and subsequent contestation and re-takeover of water management by irrigation system users. The article shows how privatization removes users’ autonomy in the name of common well-being, and increases irrigation costs in a context of little transparency. But the case also highlights users’ capacity to re-value and re-signify their past collective action, remembering and ‘re-membering to’ the collective. Senyera water users critically and reflexively analyse privatization, reconstruct societal relationships around and embedded inside the new technology, and re-collectivize and re-moralize irrigation management in a new hydro-social scenario. |
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| Keywords: | Collective action Water privatization Water management Moralization of technology Drip irrigation |
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