Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaCommunity hydric monitoring: Homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia
The expansion of large- scale mining projects in Latin America has led to the application of several different institutional and business-endorsed water monitoring systems. These have attempted to deal with their vast environmental consequences. The methods are based on the devaluation of other form...
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
2021
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| author | Ulloa, Astrid Godfrid, Julieta Damonte, Gerardo Quiroga, Catalina López, Ana Paula |
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| description | The expansion of large- scale mining projects in Latin America has led to the application of several different institutional and business-endorsed water monitoring systems. These have attempted to deal with their vast environmental consequences. The methods are based on the devaluation of other forms of knowledge. As a response to this tendency, community hydric monitoring (MHC in Spanish) has been proposed in order to empower community-based knowledge. Alternative forms of knowledge are seen as useful ways of illuminating the impact of mining on water supplies. Likewise, communities have been active in developing connections with Academia, NGO´s and social organizations to promote a meaningful dialogue with conventional technical paradigms. These exchanges aim to generate counter-narratives about water quality, as well as to develop a defense strategy against mining. Here we focus on the research done between 2018 and 2020 in Argentina (Veladero), Peru (Antapaccay- Expansión Tintaya) and Colombia (Cerrejón). In all these cases, the local population has developed its own MHC, based on local knowledge about water. We analyze the information asymmetries resulting from socio-environmental inequality and we advocate for a wider discussion which incorporates community-generated knowledge, and more diverse and comprehensive approaches to understanding, knowing and relating to water and to local conditions. |
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| spelling | iconos-article-44892021-08-30T17:56:24Z Community hydric monitoring: Homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia Monitoreos hídricos comunitarios: conocimientos locales como defensa territorial y ambiental en Argentina, Perú y Colombia Monitoramento comunitário da água: conhecimento local como defesa territorial e ambiental na Argentina, Peru e Colômbia Ulloa, Astrid Godfrid, Julieta Damonte, Gerardo Quiroga, Catalina López, Ana Paula água assimetrias de conhecimento conhecimento local contextos de mineração desigualdades socioambientais monitoramento da comunidade water knowledge asymmetries local knowledge mining contexts socio-environmental inequality community monitoring agua asimetrías de conocimientos conocimientos locales contextos mineros desigualdades socioambientales monitoreos comunitarios The expansion of large- scale mining projects in Latin America has led to the application of several different institutional and business-endorsed water monitoring systems. These have attempted to deal with their vast environmental consequences. The methods are based on the devaluation of other forms of knowledge. As a response to this tendency, community hydric monitoring (MHC in Spanish) has been proposed in order to empower community-based knowledge. Alternative forms of knowledge are seen as useful ways of illuminating the impact of mining on water supplies. Likewise, communities have been active in developing connections with Academia, NGO´s and social organizations to promote a meaningful dialogue with conventional technical paradigms. These exchanges aim to generate counter-narratives about water quality, as well as to develop a defense strategy against mining. Here we focus on the research done between 2018 and 2020 in Argentina (Veladero), Peru (Antapaccay- Expansión Tintaya) and Colombia (Cerrejón). In all these cases, the local population has developed its own MHC, based on local knowledge about water. We analyze the information asymmetries resulting from socio-environmental inequality and we advocate for a wider discussion which incorporates community-generated knowledge, and more diverse and comprehensive approaches to understanding, knowing and relating to water and to local conditions. En Latinoamérica, en el contexto de la expansión de proyectos de minería a gran escala y dadas sus consecuencias socioambientales y territoriales, se han implementado diversos monitoreos del agua (institucionales y empresariales) basados en conocimientos técnicos que desvalorizan otros conocimientos. Por lo tanto, han emergido los monitoreos hídricos comunitarios (MHC), una estrategia para posicionar las concepciones y los conocimientos locales como una herramienta política, con la que se visibiliza y cuestiona los efectos de la minería en el agua. De igual manera, las comunidades han establecido redes con la academia, las ONG y las organizaciones sociales, y así propiciar el diálogo entre sus conocimientos y los conocimientos técnicos, con el fin de generar contranarrativas frente a los indicadores e informes institucionales o empresariales sobre la calidad del agua, y como estrategia de defensa territorial frente a la minería. Nos centramos en la investigación realizada entre 2018 y 2020 en Argentina (Veladero), Perú (Antapaccay-Expansión Tintaya) y Colombia (Cerrejón), en donde las comunidades locales han desarrollado MHC, basados en la producción y sistematización de sus conocimientos en torno al agua. Analizamos las asimetrías del conocimiento en contextos de desigualdad socioambiental y planteamos la necesidad de una discusión amplia que incluya los conocimientos locales y, por tanto, formas diversas de comprender, conocer y relacionarse con el agua y lo territorial de manera integral. Na América Latina, no contexto da expansão de projetos de mineração em grande escala e pelas suas consequências socioambientais e territoriais, diversos monitoramentos da água (institucionais e empresariais) têm sido implementados com base em conhecimentos técnicos que desvalorizam outros saberes. Assim, surge o monitoramento comunitário da água (MHC), uma estratégia para posicionar as concepções e os saberes locais como ferramenta política, com a qual os efeitos da mineração sobre a água são visíveis e questionados. Da mesma forma, as comunidades estabeleceram redes com a academia, ONGs e organizações sociais, a fim de promover o diálogo entre seus saberes e conhecimentos técnicos, a fim de gerar contra-narrativas em face de indicadores e relatórios institucionais ou empresariais sobre a qualidade da água, e como estratégia de defesa territorial contra a mineração. Focalizamos as pesquisas realizadas entre 2018 e 2020 na Argentina (Veladero), Peru (Antapaccay-Expansión Tintaya) e Colômbia (Cerrejón), onde comunidades locais desenvolveram MHC, baseados na produção e sistematização de seus conhecimentos em torno da água. Analisamos as assimetrias de saberes em contextos de desigualdade socioambiental e propomos a necessidade de uma discussão ampla que inclua o conhecimento local e, portanto, as diversas formas de compreender, conhecer e relacionar a água e o território de forma integral. 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Revista de Ciencias Sociales; No. 69 (2021): Community strategies for confronting socio-environmental conflicts: Beyond resistance; 77-97 1390-8065 1390-1249 spa https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/4489/3524 https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/4489/3561 https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/4489/3549 https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/4489/3580 Derechos de autor 2021 Astrid Ulloa, Julieta Godfrid, Gerardo Damonte, Catalina Quiroga, Ana Paula López https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.es_ES |
| spellingShingle | Ulloa, Astrid Godfrid, Julieta Damonte, Gerardo Quiroga, Catalina López, Ana Paula Community hydric monitoring: Homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia |
| title | Community hydric monitoring: Homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia |
| title_full | Community hydric monitoring: Homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia |
| title_fullStr | Community hydric monitoring: Homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community hydric monitoring: Homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia |
| title_short | Community hydric monitoring: Homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia |
| title_sort | community hydric monitoring: homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in argentina, peru and colombia |
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