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  <dc:title>A multiplicity of prek(s) : enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>/Venot, Jean-Philippe</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Jensen, C.B</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>In Khmer, the word prek designates a connection between things. In Kandal province in Cambodia, preks crisscross the landscape, connecting rivers with floodplains, supporting rich ecologies and a variety of livelihoods. Drawing on science and technology studies (STS) and critical water research,  this paper explores prek(s) as a multiplicity. Rather than taking the prek as a passive object around which various practices occur, we examine how prek(s) are enacted as ontologically different : as irrigation infrastructure, as pathway to rice intensification, as device for Cambodian state-making, and as climate-friendly agricultural development. After analyzing interference patterns between enactments  and their scale-making effects in- and outside the Mekong floodplains, we make explicit our own ontological politics. Focused on sustaining multiple uses and ecosystems, 'our' prek is a socionatural mosaic landscape where many human and more-than-human actors and practices can coexist. This ontological politics, we suggest, has implications for planetary environmental knowledges and delta management far beyond Kandal's landscape.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>2022</dc:date>
  <dc:type>text</dc:type>
  <dc:identifier>https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010087976</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>fdi:010087976</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>Venot Jean-Philippe, Jensen C.B. A multiplicity of prek(s) : enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta. 2022, 5 (3), 1446-1465</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>EN</dc:language>
  <dc:coverage>CAMBODGE</dc:coverage>
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