2021/09/22 by Chakad Ojani · 1 voice · 3 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Social Sciences · #Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Water Governance and Infrastructure
paper · doi:10.1080/00141844.2021.1965643
openalex publication_date 2021/09/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
In coastal Peru, fog has recently been re-apprehended as an alternative water source for residents on the urban periphery. This article describes how a local NGO’s fog capture project repurposed its multi-national big tech funder into an engine of informal urbanisation. I demonstrate how by instigating a process of multi-directional capture between NGO, funder, government, and recipients, the NGO’s fog catchers mediated their beneficiaries’ hopes about the acquirement of land titles, thereby drawing the state in as a potential supplier of the very infrastructure to which fog capture was being presented as an alternative. Against this backdrop, I propose an approach to micro-infrastructures as political materials with the capacity to reconfigure sociopolitical realities.