Dear colleagues,
We would like to cordially invite those among you who work with people
living in river deltas to contribute to a panel that will probe the ways in
which a river end may exist as something other than a delta, and the
implications of (not) doing so.
The full panel title is *"River deltas as living landscapes: movement,
management, and the critique of a commonplace"*.
This panel is part of a conference on the theme of "*Mo(u)vement*", run
jointly by the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA <http://cas-sca.ca/>)
and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (
IUAES <https://www.iuaes.org/>).
The conference will take place in *Ottawa, CA*, between *May 2nd and 7th,
2017*.
In order to *submit an abstract*, please follow this link
<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=5306>.
Please note that the *deadline *for submission of abstracts to our
panel is *December
19th*, 2016.
More info at:
http://ukoeln.de/ZXDXV or
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5306
Panel Abstract
Life along rivers and coasts is anything but static. The places commonly
referred to as "deltas" are not only sites of dense movements of
substances, animals, people, technology and expertise. They also fluctuate
among liquid, solid and other in-between states of matter.
Deltas have recently received renewed attention from anthropologists and
other social scientists. Some study deltas because of their vulnerability
due to climate change; others explore the imaginative potential of their
alterity for undoing modern land/water and nature/culture oppositions, and
the often destructive management practices they enable.
Yet, a tendency remains to assume that the area characterized by sediment
deposits and multiple distributaries at the end of a river is essentially a
delta, even in accounts that trace different delta ontologies. The
assumption that a river end is necessarily a delta naturalizes a
historically specific hydrological enactment that emerged in The
Netherlands and travelled with Dutch expertise via colonial and development
encounters.
This panel will investigate deltas as living landscapes in order to probe
the ways in which a river end may exist as something other than a delta,
and the implications of (not) doing so. What practices, processes,
infrastructures, and stories compose river ends as living landscapes that
exceed expert hydrological enactments? In what ways have inhabitants
appropriated expert hydrological knowledge or been displaced by it? How
might the existence of river ends as something other than deltas open up
new conversations about social and ecological justice, movement and
fluctuation, and alternative futures for these more-than-human landscapes?
If you have any questions, please drop us a line.
We're looking forward to hearing form you.
Kind regards,
Tanya Richardson (Wilfrid Laurier University) [log in to unmask]
Franz Krause (University of Cologne) [log in to unmask]
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