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Virtual Water, H2O and the De-socialisation of Water—A Brief Anthropological Journey

verfasst von : Mauro Van Aken

Erschienen in: The Water We Eat

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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The concept of virtual water has been crucial in reintroducing the elements of water use and “productivity” into the understanding of the economic and political aspects of contemporary processes and in making visible dynamics of water incorporated in our daily life, food and objects. In water use and meanings today another aspect remains often invisible: the cultural and social dynamics in which water is embedded and the patterns of common that cultures have developed with water, the most relational resource. The study of the relations between water and cultures highlights the relevance in understanding the complexity of commons as communal management systems of natural resources: a complex whole not to be idealised, but as historical institutions, cultural, productive and moral systems, technical and symbolic, and central to the use and, especially, the sharing of water.

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Nächstes Kapitel The Italian Mobilisation for Water as a Commons: Moral Economy and Virtual Water

These two historical experiences are not limited to the small area today defined as the nation of Jordan, but involve the economic and social history of many parts of the Middle Eastern region.

See, for a broader anthropological view on the relationships between water and culture, Van Aken (2012).

The ritual tied to the subak is divided into nine main phases, the same in all the region: water opening, terrace opening, planting, purifying the water, feeding the gods with sacred water and other offerings, budding of the rice plants, the “yellowing” of the rice, harvest, placing the harvested rice in the granary.

See on Youtube the film taken from the video made by Lansing on this interdisciplinary and applied experience, “The Goddess and the Computer”.

See the video produced by this scientific, inter-disciplinary experience, but applied together with development questions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cTiVpb5fdM

We will keep here the English term commons as the translation of “common good” leads to too many different meanings in Italy.

Only in the Italian scenario, different political actors and parties have adopted rhetorically this term for the more varied “common goods” with a loss of meaning.

If not in the legal and economic definitions of common goods, but here we propose instead commons as a tool for understanding.

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Titel: Virtual Water, H2O and the De-socialisation of Water—A Brief Anthropological Journey
verfasst von: Mauro Van Aken
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: The Water We Eat
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-16392-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-16393-2

Copyright-Jahr: 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16393-2_9

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