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100			_aStensrud, Astrid B _946493
245			_aSocial embeddedness of hydraulic engineers in the regulation of water and infrastructure in Peru
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 37, Issue 7, 2019 (1235-1251 p.)
520			_aBased on ethnographic fieldwork in the Majes-Colca watershed in Peru, this article explores some of the questions posed by Wittfogel regarding the management of hydraulic infrastructure and its effects on social relationships, by focusing on the practices of the ‘hydraulic bureaucracy’ in Peru. The author argues that although a hydraulic bureaucracy developed after the nationalization of water and the construction of the Majes Irrigation Project, the engineers working in Majes-Colca do not constitute a despotic elite detached from the water users. Practices of water regulation are entangled in social life and cultural values, and engineers are differentiated in hierarchies based on geography and social background. The author suggests that the regulations are performed in hydrosocial networks, and the distribution of water is an issue of negotiations and struggles. The engineers are constantly balancing and negotiating the requirements of impersonal rationality and efficacy, and the social obligations of relatedness and reciprocity. These balancing acts also contribute to the reproduction of asymmetric power relations and the everyday processes of state formation.
650			_aWater, _946494
650			_abureaucracy, _933778
650			_a sociality, _946495
650			_ainfrastructure, _946496
650			_aengineers, _939335
650			_astate, _946497
650			_aPeru _946498
773	0		_08872 _915873 _dLondon Pion Ltd. 2010 _tEnvironment and planning C: _x1472-3425
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419866835
942			_2ddc _cART