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Andean Verticality Revisited: Terraced Memoryscapes and Post-Mining Water Justice in Potosí
安第斯垂直性再审视：波托西的梯田记忆地景与后采矿时代水正义
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Potosí’s colonial silver mines fractured hydrological continuity across 3,000 vertical meters of the Cordillera Real.
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Contemporary water conflicts arise not only from scarcity but from contested ownership of pre-Hispanic qanat-like infiltration channels.
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Indigenous communities maintain ceremonial irrigation schedules tied to solstice-aligned terraces, not municipal reservoir releases.
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Mining tailings still leach arsenic into high-altitude wetlands that feed downstream agricultural valleys.
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Water tribunals now convene on ancient terraces—spaces where hydrological authority was historically negotiated, not decreed.
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Hydrologists map subterranean flow paths using oral histories of ancestral spring locations, not just geophysical surveys.
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Urban migrants from mining towns reintroduce ritual offerings at canal intakes, reframing infrastructure as relational rather than technical.
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The state’s ‘modernization’ projects often bypass these layered hydro-social contracts, triggering localized noncompliance.
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Terrace restoration has become both ecological practice and legal argument in water rights litigation before Bolivia’s Plurinational Court.
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Verticality here signifies not just elevation but stratified time—where colonial extraction, Inca engineering, and Quechua cosmology coexist in runoff.
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Water justice demands recognizing aquifers as ancestral archives, not merely hydraulic assets to be optimized.
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Potosí reveals how landscape morphology encodes jurisdictional memory far more durably than statutes.