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Introduction to the thematic section entitled "Uses of Pierre Bourdieu's theory and Brazilian rural studies" written by Section Editors Arilson Favareto and Rodrigo Constante Martins.elocation-id: e2230207Received: Oct.31.2022 • Accepted: Nov.11.2022 • Published: Dec.7.2022Original article / Open access Introducción a la sección temática "Usos de la teoría de Pierre Bourdieu y estudios rurales brasileños", escrita por sus organizadores Arilson Favareto y Rodrigo Constante Martins.elocation-id: e2230207Recibido: 31.oct.2022 • Aceptado: 11.nov.2022 • Publicado: 7. dic.2022Artículo original / Acceso abierto Introdução à seção temática "Os usos da teoria de Pierre Bourdieu e os estudos rurais brasileiros", escrita por seus organizadores Arilson Favareto e Rodrigo Constante Martins.elocation-id: e2230207Recebido: 31.out.2022 • Aceito: 11.nov.2022 • Publicado: 7.dez.2022Artigo original / Acesso aberto

Introduction Rien n’est plus courant que l’emploi d’expressions de nature économique pour se référer à la question environnementale contemporaine. Sous ses multiples facettes, celle-ci semble avoir trouvé dans la grammaire de l’économie, et en particulier dans le jargon de l’économie environnementale néoclassique, les termes qui lui confèrent la légitimité scientifique et l’autorité sociale pour prendre place dans l’agenda politique contemporain. En dépit des innovations techniques et scient...

L’eau constitue une ressource à la fois vitale pour les populations et stratégique pour les économies des Amériques. Dans un contexte de changement climatique et d’accroissement des pressions d’usage, accéder à l’eau n’est plus garanti, ce qui avive les conflits et conduit les États à modifier leurs politiques hydriques. Si les villes américaines constituent des scènes pertinentes pour inventer des modes de gestion plus attentifs à l’environnement, les rapports de forces entre groupes sociaux et les inerties institutionnelles semblent cependant entraver la consolidation de tout processus de changement. Les contributions interdisciplinaires et internationales réunies dans cet ouvrage présentent les enjeux de la conservation et du juste partage des eaux dans les sociétés américaines contemporaines. Elles entendent contribuer à l’analyse des conditions d’émergence de nouveaux paradigmes en matière de politiques hydriques.

ATERLAT-GOBACIT Working Papers (ISSN 2056-4864 - online) Vol. 4 No 3. (www.waterlat.org). This issue of the Working Papers was developed by members of the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network’s Thematic Area 6, Hydrosocial Basins, Territories, and Spaces (http://waterlat.org/thematic-areas/ta6/). Itfocuses on one of the main topics addressed by TA6, which is the ongoing academic and political debate about the concept of “basin”, which has become the object of severe criticism in several areas of public policy related to water management. From different standpoints, the papers discuss the commonalities and differences between the concepts of “hidrosocial” basins, territories, spaces, and landscapes, a topic particularly debated in human and political geography but also in the broader interdisciplinary field of political ecology. The last two papers also offer an empirical discussion about the continued relevance of the concept of “river basin” in the Iberian and French traditions of water management, and explore some of the associated policy implications, contradictions, and conceptual cleavages.

The aim of this article is to present a sociological interpretation of the conjuncture of agents and social interests involved in the consolidation of the notion of river basin (hydrographic basin) as a management unit and the ensuing construction ofredevancesas an economic management tool for the French model of water governance. To achieve this goal, the methodology of this study included general bibliographical research, documentary research of the material produced by different Water Commissions, and biographical research of the Commissions’ members. The results show the socio-political network involving agents, groups and social institutions leading to the definition of a new regulatory framework. After several decades, however, this network approach was sidelined by the belief in the strictly physiographic understanding of the basins and by the crystallization of theillusioof the efficiency of the Frenchredevancesas economic tools for environmental management.

Edited collection addressing conceptual and empirical aspects of the contradictions characterising water-related public policies in Latin America.&nbsp