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Quinta Reuni\u00f3n Internacional de la Red WATERLAT – 2013<\/h2>\n

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Venues<\/strong><\/span>: Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicaci\u00f3n para Am\u00e9rica Latina (CIESPAL)<\/a> y Museo del Agua Yaku<\/a><\/p>\n

Con base en los debates de la Reuni\u00f3n elaboramos una Declaraci\u00f3n P\u00fablica del Plenario de la Quinta Reuni\u00f3n de la red WATERLAT<\/a><\/p>\n

Tambi\u00e9n emitimos dos declaraciones de solidaridad con mobilizaciones en Ecuador y Uruguay<\/a> que tuvieron lugar simult\u00e1neamente con nuestra Reuni\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

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Galer\u00eda de fotos de la Reuni\u00f3n Anual de 2013<\/span>
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Ecuador is right now a key place for the study of some of the most recent initiatives taken to reconsider the role of the State in the government and management of water. The process leading to the new Constitution in 2008 recognized the right to water, limited the participation of private enterprise in the provision of water services, re-established public companies, created a single national water authority, and recognized community water management arrangements and the rights of nature. Ecuador has also headed the rejection of international arbitration for disputes between private companies and national states and some of the proposals for regional integration within the framework of the\u00a0Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)<\/a>, which has its headquarters in Quito. What kind of balance can we make in 2013 concerning these initiatives, which have been termed \u2018post-neoliberal\u2019? What challenges and advances can we identify? How do these initiatives compare with others in the region? What kind of theoretical and methodological challenges we face for the study of these processes?<\/p>\n

Topics addressed in our meeting<\/p>\n

With the objective of strengthening the debate about the challenges that these transformations are posing for the development of post-neoliberal water politics we decided to focus our meeting on the following issues:<\/p>\n

1. Are we moving towards a post-neoliberal hydrosocial metabolism in Latin America?<\/strong><\/p>\n

a.<\/strong>\u00a0Revisiting the notion of water \u201cneoliberalism\u201d (forms, indicators, levels; liberalisms and neoliberalisms; continuities and ruptures, etc.).
\nb.<\/strong>\u00a0Capitalist autonomies and heteronomies in Latin America; degrees of \u201cde-neoliberalization\u201d; neoliberal persistence and resistance (neoliberal islands in a post-neoliberal landscape?).
\nc.<\/strong>\u00a0Obstacles and opportunities for strengthening a post-neoliberal hydrosocial metabolism in Latin America.
\nd.\u00a0<\/strong>Post-neoliberal water government and management; the \u201cbuen vivir\u201d and the rights of nature (contradictions, struggles, and challenges to the establishment of these rights and principles, etc.).
\ne.<\/strong>\u00a0The reproduction and construction of democratic post- and non-neoliberal hydrosocial territories (basins, transboundary waters; class, gender, and ethnic inequalities, etc.).
\nf.<\/strong>\u00a0Preserving and constructing democratic post- and non-neoliberal hydrosocial cultures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2. Tensions and contradictions of the post-neoliberal capitalist state<\/strong><\/p>\n

a.<\/strong>\u00a0Revisiting the tension between social and environmental justice in the context of post-neoliberal capitalisms.
\nb.<\/strong>\u00a0Mega projects of hydraulic infrastructures with impact on the hydrosocial metabolism.
\nc.<\/strong>\u00a0Mega mining projects.
\nd.\u00a0<\/strong>Industrial and exports agriculture.
\ne.<\/strong>\u00a0The expression of tensions and contradictions in the health dimension (public health, environmental health, etc.).
\nf.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cNatural disasters\u201d: injustice, inequality and defencelessness in post-neoliberal contexts.
\ng.<\/strong>\u00a0Confronting water injustice, inequality and defencelessness (struggles, contradictions, alliances, direction of the processes, etc.).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

3. Recovering and defending the public role in the provision of essential water services (drinking water, sanitation, drainage, etc.).<\/strong><\/p>\n

a.\u00a0<\/strong>The challenge of guaranteeing the exercise of the human right to water.
\nb.<\/strong>\u00a0Challenges facing the interaction between community and public water management.
\nc.\u00a0<\/strong>Inequality and injustice in the post-neoliberal government and management of essential water services.
\nd.\u00a0<\/strong>Commodification and privatization of water and water services in the post-neoliberal stage (including the mercantilization of public companies, the consolidation and emergence of regional multinational companies [\u201cmulti-latinas\u201d], etc.).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

4. X-disciplinarity in research and action to democratize water government and management<\/strong><\/p>\n

a.<\/strong>\u00a0Deepening interdisciplinarity in research: obstacles, opportunities, examples.
\nb.<\/strong>\u00a0Practicing trans-disciplinarity: research and action to democratize water government and management.
\nc.<\/strong>\u00a0The interrelation between academics, \u201cnon-academics\u201d, and other actors of X-disciplinarity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The meeting supported the\u00a0Blue October Campaign<\/a>\u00a0against the control and commodification of water by private corporations.<\/p>\n

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The Meeting was an activity of the WATERLAT Network. It was co-organized by the\u00a0School of Geography, Politics and Sociology<\/a>, Newcastle University, UK, and the\u00a0Institute of Higher National Studies (IAEN<\/a>), Ecuador.<\/p>\n

The organization of the event was supported by the\u00a0Yaku Water Museum<\/a>, Ecuador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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