Hydroreflexivity - Eglantina Monteiro - Irrigation and a Critical Awareness of Land

Irrigation and a Critical Awareness of Land

Eglantina Monteiro

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Stills from the film Mira-Rio, Southwest Alentejo, Portugal, 2023. © Francisco Janes

Hydroreflexivity
October 2023










Notes
1

Carlos Dias, “Guerra pelo acesso à água intensifica-se no perímetro de rega do Mira,” Publico, July 8, 2023. See .

2

The expression "traditional societies" does not mean adherence to a tradition, which is contradictory to current anthropological knowledge, but refers to the environmental impact of the ways of life of small rural communities whose agricultural and ecological knowledge is based on a detailed understanding of the place, as opposed to the model of industrial agricultural production generated by the explosion of the chemical and petroleum industries triggered by two world wars.

3

Paulo Barriga, “No mundo secreto das estufas (In the secret world of polytunnels)” Sábado, July 13, 2021.

4

Manuela Carneiro da Cunha and Mauro W. Almeida, “Populações tradicionais e conservação ambiental (Traditional Populations and environmental conservation),” Cultura com aspas e outros ensaios (2009).

5

On the different expressions of accelerationism and technological genius see: Deborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Há mundo por vir? Ensaio sobre os medos e os fins (Lisbon: Antígona, 2023).

6

Danowski and Viveiros de Castro, Há mundo por vir?, 117.

Translated by Russell Shackleford.