This article uses tensions over the construction of a flow-regulation infrastructure built to control outflow from Lake Titicaca into the Desaguadero River, on the border between Peru and Bolivia, as a case study to explore the ways that relationships to water emerge and are contested. We argue that a nuanced understanding of tensions arising from this infrastructure requires us to recognize the long-term history of how the river accumulated practices, meanings and materials. Adapting the work of Arturo Escobar, we use the concept of ‘water regime’ to think about how engagements with the river are based in different spatiotemporal frameworks that have developed transhistorically and come into tension around the materiality and dynamism of the river itself.

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水系和基础设施：玻利维亚 Desaguadero 河的跨历史考古学


本文以建设流量调节基础设施的紧张局势为案例，探讨与水的关系出现和争论的方式，该基础设施旨在控制从的的喀喀湖流入秘鲁和玻利维亚边境的德萨瓜德罗河。我们认为，对这种基础设施产生的紧张局势的细致理解需要我们认识到这条河如何积累实践、意义和材料的长期历史。改编自阿图罗·埃斯科瓦尔 （Arturo Escobar） 的作品，我们使用“水机制”的概念来思考与河流的互动是如何基于不同的时空框架的，这些框架已经跨历史发展起来，并围绕河流本身的物质性和活力而陷入紧张。