Abstract

QUIROGA MANRIQUE, Catalina  and  VALLEJO BERNAL, Diana. Territories of Water: Agricultural Infrastructure, Agrarian Reform, and Palm Oil in The Marialabaja Municipality, Bolívar. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2019, vol.55, n.1, pp.59-89. ISSN 0486-6525.  https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472x.570.

Water grabbing and water dispossession have gained increasing attention in recent years. Contemporary approaches recognize asymmetrical power relations and the power of nature as central axes in resource management, use and control. However, there are few studies on local water management alternatives. This article seeks to contribute to this literature, from an ethnographic approach to the irrigation district of Marialabaja-Bolivar, in the Colombian Caribbean. This analysis helps to understand how infrastructure is appropriated as part of the territory as it also generates unequal water access relations. It also reveals the direct consequences of rural development policy in the everyday lives of local populations.

Keywords : water; infrastructure; territory; Marialabaja; Colombia.

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