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From Transfers to Desal: A New Hydro-Scalar “Fix” From Transfers to Desal: A New Hydro-Scalar “Fix”
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The 2004 A.G.U.A. Program: “Agua para siempre” (Water forever) The 2004 A.G.U.A. Program: “Agua para siempre” (Water forever)
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Assembling Heterogeneous Actants: Constructing the Desalination Edifice Assembling Heterogeneous Actants: Constructing the Desalination Edifice
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Water’s Reimagined Acting Water’s Reimagined Acting
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Sublime Aridity and the Management of the Hydro-Social Cycle Sublime Aridity and the Management of the Hydro-Social Cycle
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With a Little Help from Climate Change … and Malthus With a Little Help from Climate Change … and Malthus
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“Mercantilización”: Marketing Water “Mercantilización”: Marketing Water
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Liberal Green Managers to Save the Planet (and Neoliberal Spain) Liberal Green Managers to Save the Planet (and Neoliberal Spain)
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Environmental Modernization and Globalization: Accumulation by Desalination Environmental Modernization and Globalization: Accumulation by Desalination
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Regional Autonomy and Local Cultures: Agua para todos versus a Knotted Water Pipe Regional Autonomy and Local Cultures: Agua para todos versus a Knotted Water Pipe
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The European Union’s Water Framework Directive and the Rescaling of Water Governance The European Union’s Water Framework Directive and the Rescaling of Water Governance
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The Return of the Real and the Contradictions of Desalination: “How to Change Radically so that Nothing Has to Change” The Return of the Real and the Contradictions of Desalination: “How to Change Radically so that Nothing Has to Change”
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8 Mobilizing the Seas: Reassembling Hydro-Modernities
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Published:April 2015
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Abstract
First, this chapter explores in greater detail the socio-natural actors that assemble around desalination as the new panacea to deal with Spain’s water conundrum as it enters the new millennium. Desalination becomes the dominant techno-environmental paradigm after 2004. The heterogeneous and highly unstable assemblages that are networked around this socio-technical system are examined. Secondly, the socio-environmental and ecological arguments advanced by each actor are explored. The chapter addresses how desalination shares with the ‘older’ paradigm a concern with water supply (rather than other possible forms of socio-hydraulic management) and with maintaining and re-enforcing Spain’s (and the growing global desalination industry’s) international competitive standing. However, desalination moves the nature of the conflict onto a new terrain by including the sea within the hydro-social circulation process. This ‘enrolling’ of the sea opens up myriad new forms of conflict and struggle. The chapter concludes that, despite the oppositional arguments, these new socio-technical arrangements reproduce the existing hydro-development model rather than signalling a radical new departure.
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