Dr Christopher Lawless c.j.lawless@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
How water features: negotiating and reassembling the sociomaterial politics of central Californian groundwater
Lawless, Christopher
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Abstract
This article explores responses to the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) to challenge post-political and governmentality perspectives on environmental management. I chart how SGMA reconfigured sociomaterial orderings in the Central Valley region, enacting a liminal moment for groundwater culture, between a historically entrenched libertarianism and an emergent communitarianism. Local organizations functioned as boundary organizations, re-shaping groundwater assemblages by negotiating boundaries between authority and marginalized communities. I argue that the structures and institutions typically critiqued in post-political and de-political theorising can be more fruitfully conceptualized as part of sociomaterial assemblages within which there lies potential for transformative groundwater politics.
Citation
Lawless, C. (2023). How water features: negotiating and reassembling the sociomaterial politics of central Californian groundwater. Space and Polity, https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2023.2239153
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 15, 2023 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 24, 2023 |
Publication Date | 2023 |
Deposit Date | Aug 7, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 7, 2023 |
Journal | Space and Polity |
Print ISSN | 1356-2576 |
Electronic ISSN | 1470-1235 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2023.2239153 |
Keywords | Political Science and International Relations; Geography, Planning and Development |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1712611 |
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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