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Waterscapes and hydrosocial territories: Thinking space in political ecologies of water

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Over the past two decades, ‘waterscape’ and ‘hydrosocial territory’ have gained momentum in political ecologies of water. These concepts explore the material outcomes of the interplay of social and biophysical processes by building on two different core concepts of geography (‘landscape’ and ‘territory’). Relying on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus comprising 113 articles (1999–2019), this paper investigates the commonalities and divergences in the spatialities of water that these concepts convey. We show that the two concepts delineate two close but nevertheless different analytical threads with regard to water-related spatialities. Yet, the use of the concepts waterscape or hydrosocial territory does not directly result from a theorisation of space that would be specific to different spatial contexts, but rather from what is studied in these spaces, that is, the socio-spatial inequalities or injustices that characterise them, and the transformations – either radical or incremental – that shape them.

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hal-04566179 , version 1 (02-05-2024)

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Silvia Flaminio, Gaële Rouillé-Kielo, Selin Le Visage. Waterscapes and hydrosocial territories: Thinking space in political ecologies of water. Progress in Environmental Geography - PEG, 2022, 1 (1-4), pp.33-57. ⟨10.1177/27539687221106796⟩. ⟨hal-04566179⟩
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