Article ID: CBB379279779

Hydrocracies, Engineers and Power: Questioning Masculinities in Water (2017)

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Zwarteveen, Margreet (Author)


Engineering Studies
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Pages: 78-94


Publication Date: 2017
Edition Details: Special Issue: Engineering Masculinities in Water Governance
Language: English

Beginning with colonial times and continuing to the present, irrigation engineering has been and is an important site for the construction of gendered power and hegemonic masculinities. The strong connection between masculinities and professional irrigation cultures provides one possible explanation of why hydraulic bureaucracies are so resistant to change: it makes behaviours and codes of conduct that are learned seem natural. Taking inspiration from masculinity studies and from feminist studies of technology and organizations, this article proposes two possible lines of inquiry for critically disentangling how the irrigation profession becomes or is made masculine. The first is the feminist historical analysis of water bureaucracies, and the second is a critical ethnography of contemporary irrigation organizations. Such studies are needed both to create more space for women engineers in government water agencies and to contribute to unravelling important cultural aspects of water politics.

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Authors & Contributors
Ertsen, M. W.
Rap, Edwin
William Barr II
Kacey Beddoes
Delgado, Juana R. Vega
Anna Salvatorelli
Concepts
Technology and gender
Engineering
Women in engineering
Water resource management
Irrigation
Masculinity
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
Renaissance
20th century, late
20th century, early
17th century
Places
United States
Peru
Andes
Nepal
Scotland
Argentina
Institutions
California Institute of Integral Studies
California Institute of Technology. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Georgia Institute of Technology
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