Cultural politics and the hydrosocial cycle: water, power and identity in the Andean highlands
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- Authors
- Boelens, R.
- Affiliations
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PE)
- Corresponding author
- Boelens, Rutgerd
- ORCID
- Boelens, Rutgerd
- Venue
- Geoforum
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-11
- Volume
- 57
- Pages
- 234-247
- ISSN
- 0016-7185 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2107030911
- Semantic Scholar
- 9d7cc76b5a070f4112d699ce4b40adb8cd255438
- Cited by
- 358
- References
- 98
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- FWCI
- 86.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.wur.nl
- Locations
- Geoforum (publishedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Water Resource Management and Quality
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Extractivism and Socioeconomic Issues
- Keywords
- hydrosocial cycle, Andean highlands, water politics, cultural politics, Mother Earth, mountain deities, water struggles, governmentality
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