Production of space in the town of San Pedro de Atacama from an analysis of its water distribution and governance.

Abstract

This paper addresses the relationship between water distribution and governance as elements that allow an approach to the analysis of the production of space in the town of San Pedro de Atacama in the Antofagasta region, Chile. The foregoing starts with a qualitative methodological scheme, which stops at the material forms of its distribution (irrigation channels) and forms of socio-political organization, which have given the green light to the regulation of various uses through a gradual evolution of its regulatory apparatus, a fact that relates the interests of various social actors (Indigenous, peasants, state agents, among others) within the framework of the rights to use water sources. This makes it possible to sustain the idea of the existence of a “conflict transformation” over water in the territory.

Production of space

water distribution

governance

San Pedro de Atacama