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The main objective of the project was to document how climate change is experienced, explained and respected among various groups' living along the Majes-Colca watercourse in Peru. The project has investigated how farmers in the Andes are observing and experiencing changes in the weather and the environment, and how they interpret the changes and act in relation to the changes. There has also been a special focus on collective action through organizing in water user organizations. The project also investigated how climate change affects local knowledge and how knowledge of nature and cosmology is articulated in the public space. Finally, the project has also looked at relationships and transactions between different locations along the Majes-Colca waterway: Maje's irrigation project on the dry plains in the "lowlands" near the coastline (about 1000 meters), Chivay in the Colca valley (3600 meters), and Callalli in highest part of the waterway where the Condoroma dam is located. All interviews in this research project are conducted in Spanish. For further information about "Climate Cosmopolitics: Water Conflicts and Citizenship in the era of Climate Change in the Peruvian Andes, 2018", please contact the principal investigator.