Latin American Studies ETDs
Publication Date
Spring 5-18-2020
Abstract
A preliminary assessment of the first five years of implementation of Ecuador’s new Ley Organica de Recursos Hidricos, Usos y Aprovechamiento de Agua (LORHUyA, 2014), exlploring its impact on small irrigators communities, through the lens of Buen Vivir. A communication-based action research and political ecology of water in Ecuadorian marginalized Campesino communities, elucidating the repercussions of state-centralized water policy on the customary water management systems, and the disconnect between policy as determined nationally vs implemented locally. This research investigates the gap between Ecuador’s plurinational recognition of cultural rights, epistemic diversity, citizens’ participation and community control outlined by Buen Vivir, and de facto practices of policy implementation around water. In the face of the Western superiorirty biases that still persist within the new Ecuadorian water law, the results of the case-study in the self-identified Indigenous and Mestizo Comuna of Oyacoto of the rural parish of Calderon (Pichincha, Ecuador), challenge social science research that expect marginalized communities to either resist or reproduce social hierarchies and systems of domination, pointing instead to a much more complex reworking of Ecuador’s social formations in the era of Buen Vivir.
Project Sponsors
UCE
Language
English
Keywords
Ecuador, Buen Vivir, LORHUyA, customary water systems, participation, plurinationality.
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Latin American Studies
Level of Degree
Doctoral
Department Name
Latin American Studies
First Committee Member (Chair)
Claudia Isaac
Second Committee Member
Jennifer Tucker
Third Committee Member
Dante Di Gregorio
Fourth Committee Member
Kimberly Gauderman
Recommended Citation
Nebbiai, Martina. "ECUADOR’S NEW WATER LEGAL FRAMEWORK (LORHUyA, 2014): AN ASSESSEMENT OF THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF IMPLEMENTATION THROUGH THE LENS OF PLURINATIONALITY AND CAMPESINO’S BUEN VIVIR." (2020). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ltam_etds/54
Comments
Fifth Comittee member: Dr. Maria Lane