Paper short abstract:

This communication proposes to reflect on the actions that Andean communities have been implementing for the care of the moors and water. We will start from an approach that makes visible the relationships generated by actions that defend access and the right to water.

Paper long abstract:

The mythical accounts of the Kayambi communities highlight the importance of the geographical environment, more specifically, of its aquatic component. These populations maintain a particular relationship with their natural environment. However, access to resources such as water and land continue to be one of its main problems.

Throughout its history, peasant resistance in these regions has faced the legal and political immobility of national society. This caused social processes within community organizations that seek to resume their collective practices related to land and water management.

In this way, access to water is understood more as a process that not only consists in the hoarding of a capital asset but also as an element that affects legal definitions, social mobilization and in the case of the Kayambi communities as a mechanism of recovery of cultural and territorial identity.

This communication proposes to reflect on the actions that these communities have been implementing for the care of the moors and water and in order to consolidate community management. Such is the case of the declaration of water reserves to the territorial jurisdiction of the Kayambi People.

The actions that defend access and right to water are defined as spaces in which particular relationships are generated, so we will start from an approach that makes visible the transformations of political subjectivities and the social bonds that are generated.