Fabricating Irrigators: Contested Hydrosocial Territories and Subject-Making in Spain’s Tagus–Segura Interbasin Transfer Arena

• Published in: Water (Basel) Vol. 16; no. 2; p. 192
• Main Authors: Bourguignon, Nicholas, Villamayor-Tomás, Sergio, Boelens, Rutgerd
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2024
• Subjects: Agribusiness; Agriculture; Common Agricultural Policy; ecology; Farmers; Feminism; governance; Hegemony; Irrigation; issues and policy; laws and regulations; Modernization; Natural resources; Netherlands; rivers; Rural areas; Spain; United Kingdom; water; United Kingdom; Netherlands; Spain

This article explores how irrigation farmer (regante) subjectivities are constructed in direct conjunction with the production of modernist–capitalist hydrosocial territories across the Tagus and Segura river basins in central and south-east Spain. We explore the complexities and contradictions of h...