ABSTRACT

Discourses of risk, rights, unity, individualism, conservation and loss are articulated and enacted in relation to the absence of water or, more aptly, what may be considered adequate water during conditions of drought. Inevitably, irrigator responses to drought and water allocations are situated within the larger, yet generally unstated, context of temporality; the progression of time through the past, present and future of drought. Explored extensively during WKHVSDWLDOWXUQRIWKHVDQGVHJ*UHJRU\DQG8UU\-DPHVRQ /HIHEYUH6RMDWKHLPSRUWDQFHRIXQGHUVWDQGLQJWHPSRUDOLW\ DV DQ DVSHFW RI ODQGVFDSHV DQG µZDWHUVFDSHV¶ LV VLJQL¿FDQW $FFRUGLQJ WR 0DVVH\SVSDFHDQGWLPHDUHµLQH[WULFDEO\LQWHUZRYHQ¶DVVSDFH may be understood as a social product and society as a spatial product, which are each constructed within a mutual relationship that relies upon history.