@article{fdi:010086297,
  title = {{R}adical reassemblages : the life history of a {N}ile {D}elta pumping collective},
  author = {{R}ap, {E}. and de {B}ont, {C}. and {M}olle, {F}ran{\c{c}}ois and {B}olding, {A}. and {I}smail, {A}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}his article investigates how people, technology, and water flows act together in using and transforming infrastructure to improve water access. {A}nalytically, we propose to study collective action over time through the relationships between humans and non-humans as they collaborate to mediate water and other flows. {O}ur case-study lies in {E}gypt. {O}ver four decades, the {I}rrigation {I}mprovement {P}roject has introduced various sociotechnical and institutional measures to improve water management in the {N}ile {D}elta. {B}y establishing collective pumping infrastructure and {W}ater {U}ser {A}ssociations, water users were compelled to collaborate to reduce water extraction and over-irrigation. {F}or heuristic purposes, we examine in detail the life history of one pumping collective facing increasing water scarcity. {T}he article presents four life phases of the pumping collective and analyses what drives the assemblage and its transformations. {T}hrough time, we understand pumping collectives as heterogeneous and shifting assemblages of human and non-human agents that provide differentiated access to multiple resource flows. {W}e describe the surprising stream of events that unfolds. {T}he pumping collective radically dismantles the standard technological and organizational set-up and replaces it with a more flexible and disaggregated form of irrigation. {B}y tracking this trajectory, the article demonstrates the remarkable agency of a pumping collective in renewing and reassembling itself. {O}n this basis, we argue that the complex entanglement of material objects, human actors, water (and other resource flows) can explain this. {H}ence, it is important to look beyond the society-nature dichotomy to understand the transformational capacity of collectives.},
  keywords = {{W}ater governance ; agency ; collective action ; pumps & pipelines ; irrigation management ; {EGYPTE} ; {NIL} {DELTA}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{E}nvironment and {P}lanning {E}-{N}ature and {S}pace},
  volume = {[{E}arly access]},
  numero = {},
  pages = {[23 ]},
  ISSN = {2514-8486},
  year = {2022},
  DOI = {10.1177/25148486221123701},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010086297},
}