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- Title
Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures.
- Authors
MIRHANOĞLU, ADNAN; ÖZEROL, GÜL; HOOGESTEGER, JAIME; DEN BROECK, PIETER VAN; LOOPMANS, MAARTEN
- Abstract
Drip irrigation is often considered a technological solution to increase water use efficiency and crop productivity. However, all too often, its social and institutional entanglements are ignored. This paper treats drip irrigation as a socio-material assemblage and discusses the social and institutional changes triggered by the introduction of drip irrigation infrastructure in Ağlasun, a rural town located in the southwest of Turkey. Through an ethnographic study, we investigate how the switch from surface irrigation to drip irrigation entails an interaction of institutional re-arrangements, material infrastructures and strategizing actors to reshuffle the operation and maintenance of irrigation infrastructures, water distribution rules and water pricing. Expanding the concept of institutional bricolage to socio-material bricolage, we offer a nuanced understanding of how material infrastructures and institutions are mutually shaped by individual and collective agency.
- Subjects
TURKEY; MICROIRRIGATION; WATER distribution; IRRIGATION; WATER efficiency
- Publication
International Journal of the Commons, 2023, Vol 17, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
1875-0281
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5334/ijc.1188