Venot Jean-Philippe auteur aut IRD Jensen C.B auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access 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. specialized CAMBODGE 062EVAEAU 098HYSOC 021ENVECO 095DEVEL 5 3 1446-1465 2022 2514-8486 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010087976 10.1177/25148486211026835 2514-8486 [F B010087976] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010087976 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2023-06/010087976.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2023-06-06 2025-02-24 fdi:010087976 fre