Indigenous irrigation organizations and the formation of social capital in northern highland Ecuador

Auteurs :
PERREAULT, T.
BEBBINGTON, A.
CARROLL, T.

Description :
Paper is concerned with the how to build social capital, which is viewed as norms of reciprocity and networks of civic engagement. AA. address what mixes of intervention best build social capital and how transportable are these interventions to other contexts. For answers they study the organizational history of indigenous water-users associations in the northern highlands of Ecuador (Cayambe region). Those successful associations have been overlaid upon traditional social networks based on obligation and reciprocity. - (SLD)


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Yearbook. Conference of Latin Americanist geographers, 1998, vol. 24, p. 1-15, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 36 ref.

Date :
1998

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis