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Article Dans Une Revue Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space Année : 2022

A multiplicity of prek(s) : enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta

Jean-Philippe Venot
C.B Jensen
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In Khmer, the word prek designates a connection between things. In Kandal province in Cambodia, preks crisscross the landscape, connecting rivers with floodplains, supporting rich ecologies and a variety of livelihoods. Drawing on science and technology studies (STS) and critical water research, this paper explores prek(s) as a multiplicity. Rather than taking the prek as a passive object around which various practices occur, we examine how prek(s) are enacted as ontologically different : as irrigation infrastructure, as pathway to rice intensification, as device for Cambodian state-making, and as climate-friendly agricultural development. After analyzing interference patterns between enactments and their scale-making effects in- and outside the Mekong floodplains, we make explicit our own ontological politics. Focused on sustaining multiple uses and ecosystems, ?our? prek is a socionatural mosaic landscape where many human and more-than-human actors and practices can coexist. This ontological politics, we suggest, has implications for planetary environmental knowledges and delta management far beyond Kandal's landscape.

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hal-04118170 , version 1 (02-03-2024)

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Jean-Philippe Venot, C.B Jensen. A multiplicity of prek(s) : enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2022, 5 (3), pp.1446-1465. ⟨10.1177/25148486211026835⟩. ⟨hal-04118170⟩
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