El Ciclo Hidropolítico en Tlahuapan, Puebla: reflexiones en el Capitaloceno

Abstract

The present work seeks to monitor and problematize water flows of water and power in a particular socio-environmental meshwork, using the hydro-political cycle as an epistemological vehicle. Based on ethnographic information obtained in Tlahuapan, Puebla, under the political ecology approach, I advance a reflection on the social and political processes that water as a vehicle allows and sustains. This paper explores the power flows that water embodies, reproduces, and enables, and at the same time disputes and / or allows to challenge. The proposed category of the hydro-political cycle is embedded and finds its explanation in the era of the Capitalocene and the so-called Law of Cheap Nature. The use of this category in the case of Tlahuapan, allows to conclude that water is at the same time natural, social and historical, but also, an important conduit through which certain unequal power relations are constructed and perpetuated, and ultimately have repercussions on the access and distribution of natural resources.