International Conference program

Water in the Americas

Paris
January 9th - 11th, 2019
Organized by the Centre de recherche et de documentation sur les Amériques (CNRS-CREDA)
T he International Conference Water in the
Americas is organized by the CREDA (CNRS).
It will take place at the Institut des hautes
études de l’Amérique latine, on January 9th –
11th, 2019.
The objectives of this International Confer-
ence are to identify, within a comparative per-
spective, the recent evolution of social science
research on the water sector in the Americas.
Goals are to emphasize theoretical and meth-
odological developments in the analysis of the
sector and to gain understanding on how social
sciences have contributed to current debates.
The Americas have been a notable site of
struggle over water, since the onset of privatiza-
tion of water services in the early 1990’s or in the
drought stricken river systems of the American
West. These areas continue to provide useful
fields of study and allow for developments in
theory and methodology.
Thus, the conference program is twofold.
First, to explore the evolution of approaches
on water, considered as a resource, a service,
a legacy, a common good, an economic good,
an environmental factor, a policy network. Sec-
ond, an analysis will be made on the recent
fields of scientific research that have emerged.
Innovative analytical tools and methodologies
will be presented, and, similarities between the
cases studied will be identified with a view to
isolating characteristics specific to the Ameri-
cas and the elements of reflection they offer to
international research.
Papers will be pre-circulated to be read by
participants before the conference. Authors will
not read papers : moderators will comment on
papers and authors will make a short oral pre-
sentation followed by discussion in the floor.
icwater2019.hypotheses.org
 January, Wednesday 9th Juan Cabrera,
Universidad Privada Boliviana. Université de Liège & Université libre de Bruxelles
Cochabamba: la emergencia de servicios de agua alternativos y su efecto territorial.
15 h 00 – 18 h 00  Inauguration
Claude Le Gouill,
Introduction CREDA - Observatoire Hommes - Milieux Pima County
(Unité Mixte Internationale iGLOBES-CNRS/University of Arizona)
Olivier Compagnon, Director of the Institut des hautes études de l’Amérique Latine
Water Commons in Bolivia Twenty Years After Cochambamba : Resistance, Efficiency
Bénédicte Gazon, Representative of the Agence française de développement and Topicality of a Community Alternative.
Sébastien Velut, Representative of the scientific and organization committees Patrick Laigneau,
Chercheur consultant indépendant
Inaugural Conference
A Political Anthropology and Commons Theory Analysis of Watershed Management
Paul Robbins, in France, Brazil and Argentina.
Director-Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
The Political Ecology of Water: Justice, Power, and Flows. 11 h 00 – 11 h 30 Coffee Break
Commented by Graciela Schneier-Madanes,
CNRS Professor Emerita at CREDA
11 h 30 – 13 h 30  From Water Law to the Right To Water
Cocktail
Moderator: Rutgerd Boelens, University of Wageningen
Liber Martin,
January, Thursday 10th Universidad Nacional de Cuyo - CONICET
From Scarcity to the State of Exception in Water Government in the Americas. A
9 h 00 –11 h 00  Communities and Commons Comparative Approach.
Chloé Nicolas-Artero,
Moderator: Sarah Botton, AFD
CNRS-CREDA
Ludovic Drapier, Water Accumulation by Dispossesion in Chile : an Analysis of Geo-Legal Devices.
Laboratoire de Géographie Physique UMR CNRS 8591. Université Paris Est Créteil
Ana Gendron,
Dam Removal as a New Imaginary for Rivers : an Hydrosocial Territory Perspepctive.
Chercheure associée CNRS-CREDA
Rodrigo Martins, The Challenges of Access to Water and the Right to Water (Legal Pluralism, Indig-
Conselho nacional de desenvolvimento científico e tecnológico (CNPq) enous Rights).
Universidade federal de São Carlos
Sociology of Water Governance in Brazil : Agents, Discourses and Institutions.
 Lara Côrtes, Camila Gianella, Angela Maria Paez Murcia and Catalina Vallejo, 20 h 00 – 22 h 00 Soirée  « Mines and Water » at the Maison de l’Amérique Latine
Chr. Michelsen Institute & University of Kansas, Universidad de los Andes
Constitutionnal Reforms for the Enschrinement of the Right to Water: Opportunities Documentary Screening: La Hija de la Laguna (Ernesto Cabellos, Peru, 2015)
and Limitations in Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
Moderator: Nicolas Richard, CNRS-CREDA
Commented by :
13 h 30 – 14 h 30 Lunch
Antonia Zambra,
14 h 30 – 16 h 30 Water Conflits and Local Knowledge Universidad Diego Portales 

Moderator: Carine Chavarochette, CNRS-CREDA Kyra Grieco,

EHESS 
Pablo Ortiz,
Universidad Salesiana de Ecuador
Territorio y poder en los Andes: una aproximación a las luchas de comunidades
indígenas de los Andes del Norte de Ecuador.
January, Friday 11th
Lucile Medina and Tania Rodriguez,
9 h 00 – 11 h 00  Water in Cities : a Question of Governance
UMR 5281 ART-Dev - Université Paul Valéry
& UMR 5281 ART-Dev - Universidad de Costa Rica Moderator: Graciela Schneier-Madanes, CNRS-CREDA
L’eau, la frontière et l’ananas : déplacement des conflits pour l’eau dans le bassin
transfrontalier du fleuve San Juan (Costa-Rica-Nicaragua). Melina Tobias and Andrea Catenazzi,
Universidad de Buenos-Aires & CONICET
Ana Carolina Aguerri Borges, Agua para todos o agua para quienes? La accesibilidad al servicio de redes en la
ODEPP - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Buenos Aires hídrica del siglo XX.
From Hope to Conflict : Inequality in Access to Water by Farmers Resettled by the
São Francisco River in the State of Pernambuco - Brazil. Joshua Greene,
Université de Genève
Jade Latargère, When Acces to Water is Commodified: Mexico a Case Study.
Chercheure associée CEMCA (USR 337 América Latina)
Water, Conflits and Patrimony in Mexico: the Struggle of Peasant Communities in Guillaume Poiret,
Morelos Against Urbanization. Université Paris-Est Créteil- Val de Marne . Créteil Lab’Urba
Crise de l’eau de Flint, quelle gestion de l’eau dans les villes moyennes en déclin ?
Inés Calvo Valenzuela,
EHESS-LAS
Women, Water and Coal : Sociocultural Transformations in the Wayuu of the Colom-
bian Guajira.
18 h 00 – Apéritif dînatoire at the IHEAL
 Alexandra Angéliaume, Alvaro Gutierrez and Maria Alarcon, 14 h 30 – 16 h 30 Operational Approaches and Social Sciences
GEODE Toulouse, CIMAV & Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas de Bogota
Políticas y prácticas para la gestión des áreas de abastecimiento de agua. Territorios Moderator: Sébastien Velut, CNRS-CREDA
urbanos tributarios: los casos de las ciudades de Durango (México) u Bogotá (Co-
Vanessa Cançado and Nilo Nascimiento,
lombia).
Universidade federale Minas Gerais
Provision of Ecoystem Services in Supply Catchment Perimeters for Integrated Envi-
ronmental Management of Water Resources.
11 h 00 – 11 h 30 Coffee Break
Mitchell de Sousa,
Universidad de Buenos-Aires
Diagnostic Methodology Studies in Urban Basin Areas: the Analysis of Landscape
11 h 30 – 13 h 30  The Emergence of Alternative Water Policies Units in the Neighborhoods of Pompeya (City of Buenos Aires) and Valentin Alsina
(Buenos Aires Province) in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. The Riachuelo as a
Moderator: Franck Poupeau, CNRS-CREDA Place of Interaction Between its Inhabitants.
Jeremy Robert, Robin Larsimont and Martin Facundo,
Institut français d’études andines Universidad de Cuyo & CONICET
What Socio-Ecological Transition for Water Management in Lima ? The Hydrosocial Approach and its cycles in Latin America : Use, Abuse and a Pos-
Amaël Marchand, sible Way through the Maze.
LATTS  Birgit Müller and Elise Boutié,
Water Bureaucracies Challenged by Alternative Water Management in the Urban IIAC / LAIOS (CNRS/EHESS) & EHESS
Peripheries of Mexico. Reconnecting throught Water or the One with the Longest Straw Takes it All. Ground-
Anne-Lise Boyer and Brian O’Neill, water Self-Management in a Green Californian Desert.
ENS Lyon & University of Illinois, CNRS-CREDA 17 h 00   Conference Conclusions
Water Conservation in Arizona Desert Cities : “Fixing” the Water Supply Issue or
Questionning the Oasis Lifestyle? Edith Kauffer,
Joan Cortinas and Lala Razafimahefa, CIESAS – Iméra
UMI iGLONES & CNRS - UMR 5281 ART-Dev Rutgerd Boelens,
The Social Determinants of Water Conflicts. University of Wageningen

13 h 30 – 14 h 30 Lunch
 Wednesday Thursday Friday Scientific Committee : Enrique Aliste, Professor of Geography, Universidad de Chili,
Rutgerd Boelens, Professor of Political Ecology of Water, University of Amsterdam,
Water in Cities : a
Communities and David Blanchon, Professor of Geography, Université Paris Nanterre UMR 7218 Lavue,
9 h 00 - 11 h 00 Question of Gover-
Commons Barbara Casciarri, Professor of Antropology, Université Paris 8, Horacio Capel, Geog-
nance
amphithéâtre IHEAL
amphithéâtre IHEAL
rapher, Professor Emeritus, Universidad de Barcelona, Carine Chavarochette, Antro-
pologist, Associate researcher, CREDA, Jean-Marc Fournier, Professor of Geography,
11 h 00 - 11 h 30 Université de Caen, Stéphane Ghiotti, Geographer, Researcher CNRS, Art-Dev, Uni-
The Emergence of versité de Montpellier, Armando Guevara-Gil, Professor of Law, Pontificia Universidad
From Water Law to
11 h 30 - 13 h 30 Alternative Water Católica del Peru, Edith Kauffer, Political Scientist, Researcher, Centro de Investigacio-
the Right to Water
amphithéâtre IHEAL Policies nes y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social Sureste de Mexico, Nilo Nascimiento,
amphithéâtre IHEAL
Professor of Hidrology, Universidad Federal Minas Gerais, Franck Poupeau, Sociolo-
13 h 30 - 14 h 30 Lunch gist, Director of Research, CNRS-CREDA, Graciela Schneier-Madanes, Geographer, Pro-
salle C IHEAL fessor Emerita, CNRS-CREDA, Marcelo Vargas Coutinho, Professor of Public Policies,
14 h 30 - 15 h 00 Operational Ap- Universidad Federal de São Carlos, Sébastien Velut, Professor of Geography, IHEAL,
Water Conflicts and
proaches and Social Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3
Inauguration Local Knowledge
15 h 00 - 16 h 30 amphithéâtre IHEAL Sciences
salle Bourjac Paris III
amphithéâtre IHEAL Organization Committee : Graciela Schneier-Madanes, Geographer, Professor Emer-
16 h 30 - 17 h 00 ita CNRS – CREDA, Sébastien Velut, Geographer, Professor of Geography, CREDA – IHE-
Conference AL – Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III, Franck Poupeau, Sociologist, Director of
17 h 00 - 18 h 00 Research CNRS – CREDA, Carine Chavarochette, Anthropologist, Research Associate,
Conclusions
Chloé Nicolas-Artero, Geographer, PhD Student – CREDA
18 h 00 - 20 h 00 Apéritif dînatoire
IHEAL
Soirée Mines & Contact :
Water Carmen Bailly Morisset
20 h 00 - 22 h 00 organization assistant
Maison de
l’Amérique latine eauxdesameriques.creda@gmail.com

Venues

Sorbonne-Salle Bourjac, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III

17, rue de la Sorbonne - 75005 PARIS
IHEAL-Amphithéâtre & Salle C, Institut des hautes études de l’Amérique latine
28, rue Saint-Guillaume - 75007 PARIS
Maison de l’Amérique latine,
212, boulevard Saint-Germain - 75007 PARIS