Entre la abundancia y la escasez de agua: discursos, poder y biocombustibles en Piura, Perú
In early 2000 the promotion of biofuels in Peru was set through the construction of discourses stressing their benefit to the country. Biofuels would not only respond to the increasing prices of fossill fuels in international markets, but it would also improve employment level by creating jobs in ru...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Perú |
| Institución: | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Repositorio: | PUCP-Institucional |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/115112 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/debatesensociologia/article/view/8976/9384 https://doi.org/10.18800/debatesensociologia.201301.003 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Agua Biocombustibles Escasez Abundancia Discursos Paisajes Hídricos Poder Sociology Water Biofuels Scarcity Abundance Discourses Waterscape Power https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.04.00 |
| Sumario: | In early 2000 the promotion of biofuels in Peru was set through the construction of discourses stressing their benefit to the country. Biofuels would not only respond to the increasing prices of fossill fuels in international markets, but it would also improve employment level by creating jobs in rural areas, contribute to change the energetic matrix and decrease carbon gases to slow down climatic changes. By 2006, several companies showed interest in producing ethanol from sugar cane in Piura, a semiarid area located in the northern coast of Peru. Investment included the acquisition of large extensions of land in addition to water rights adequate enough to irrigate large areas of monocrop production. From a political ecology framework, here I analyze how these companies discursively played with the ideas of water abundance and scarcity to secure their water rights to the detriment of peasant communities and smallholders who were traditional water rights holders. Finally, I argue that these discourses contributed to the production of a «waterscape» that not only reinforced water unsustainability but also social inequalities. |
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