Territorios hidrosociales: historia ambiental de la apropiación social y sostenibilidad en la cuenca del Río Dagua, Colombia en el siglo XX

Abstract

Recognizing the hybrid, the complex and systemic character of water from hydrosocial studies implied understanding that it circulates in a continuous process between the various actors in different historical periods. In the Dagua river basin, the profound transformations that have naturally altered or modified the ecological dynamics of the basin are closely linked to the form of social appropriation that each of the actors that converge there carries out, not only of water but also of the territory, thus creating and recreating hydrosocial territories. With an interdisciplinary and descriptive methodology, through documentary analysis, and ethnographic work with workshops, semi-structural interviews and fieldwork, it recognized that the social appropriation of water determined by culture is flexible and depends on each ontological and geographical context and history subscribed. The document ranges from the pre-Columbian period to the present and shows that the social appropriation of water is not exclusive in time or space. It can occur simultaneously, which suggests that, in some historical moments, it coexists and may be inscribed in different societies, with different ways of life and different visions-notions and actions of building hydrosocial territories over time.