CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

Since the nineteenth century, in the province of Mendoza (Argentina) state policies favored the centralization and distribution of water to benefit irrigation oasis and the wine industry, controlled by the political elite and European immigrants. Such distribution was legitimized by arguments that posited an environmental rationality supposedly scientific and universal care associated subsequent water and nature.Since the recent conflict megamineros project installation would be sources of exploitation and water pollution on a large scale, we analyze the state conceptions of socio-environmental relations, contradictions and political effects on both social distribution of resources and in environmental configuration itself. We conclude that the State Mendoza challenges the nature according to their potential exchange value, under the rhetorical appeal to technical efficiency, development, modernization and consensus at the expense of social and cultural rights.

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