Abstract

SANTOS, Carlos  and  VAZQUEZ, Manuel. Politics, science and ignorance: political ecology of the hydrosocial cycle in Uruguay. Rev. urug. Antropología y Etnografía [online]. 2023, vol.8, n.1, e649.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 2393-7068.  https://doi.org/10.29112/ruae.v8i1.1649.

The vital centrality of water is concomitant with the difficulties in providing an exhaustive definition of it. The plurality of discourses and relationships that exist on and around water are configured in a hierarchical way, so that such asymmetry defines the power relations that are established around its access, control or management.

This article explores the transformations in the hydrosocial cycles of contemporary Uruguay, which have been enabled by the Law of Irrigation with Agrarian Destination, through an approach focused on the notion of hydrosocial cycle, the transformations of the hydric landscape that are enabled by the Destined Irrigation Law Agrarian in Uruguay. Assuming the multidimensionality of the process, the aim is to analyze: the normative modifications imposed by the law and their relationship with the hegemonic policies on water in the world; the parliamentary speeches that took place during the modification of the law in the legislative chambers and the role of science in the process of regulation of the modifications to the law, from the conceptual framework of the studies of strategic ignorance.

Keywords : water; irrigation; strategic ignorance; Uruguay; political ecology..

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