%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Venot, Jean-Philippe
%A Jensen, C.B
%T A multiplicity of prek(s) : enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta
%D 2022
%L fdi:010087976
%G ENG
%J Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space
%@ 2514-8486
%K CAMBODGE
%K MEKONG DELTA
%M ISI:000849113200001
%N 3
%P 1446-1465
%R 10.1177/25148486211026835
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010087976
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2023-06/010087976.pdf
%V 5
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X 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.
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