Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures

Adnan Mirhanoğlu; Gül Özerol; Jaime Hoogesteger; Pieter VAN DEN BROECK; Maarten Loopmans

doi:10.5334/ijc.1188

Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures

Adnan Mirhanoğlu^*, Gül Özerol, Jaime Hoogesteger, Pieter VAN DEN BROECK, Maarten Loopmans

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Abstract

Drip irrigation is often considered a technological solution to increase water use efficiency and crop productivity. However, all too often, its social and institutional entanglements are ignored. This paper treats drip irrigation as a socio-material assemblage and discusses the social and institutional changes triggered by the introduction of drip irrigation infrastructure in Ağlasun, a rural town located in the southwest of Turkey. Through an ethnographic study, we investigate how the switch from surface irrigation to drip irrigation entails an interaction of institutional re-arrangements, material infrastructures and strategizing actors to reshuffle the operation and maintenance of irrigation infrastructures, water distribution rules and water pricing. Expanding the concept of institutional bricolage to socio-material bricolage, we offer a nuanced understanding of how material infrastructures and institutions are mutually shaped by individual and collective agency.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	69-86
Number of pages	18
Journal	International journal of the commons
Volume	17
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1188
Publication status	Published - 23 Feb 2023

Keywords

drip irrigation
infrastructure
irrigation governance
socio-material bricolage
Turkey

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