Dear Colleagues,
We wish to invite you to propose a paper to our panel at EASA 2020 in
Lisbon on “Wet horizons”. The deadline to submit an abstract via
EASA’s website is on January 20th, 2020.
_Convenors_: Franz Krause (University of Cologne), Sandro Simon
(University of Cologne), Nora Horisberger (University of Cologne),
Werner Krauß (University of Bremen), Benoit Ivars (University of
Cologne)
_Short abstract_:
How do changing water regimes insert themselves into social and
cultural processes? How do current social and cultural arrangements
speed up or abate the proliferation of wet horizons? How are
more-than-human beings, including animals, plants and spirits,
involved in these re-articulations?
_Long abstract_:
With shifting precipitation patterns, altered seasonal cycles,
increasing droughts and floods, melting glaciers and permafrost,
wetness had gained renewed social, political and economic
significance. Unruly waters undermine infrastructures and inspire new
technologies, displace populations and invigorate stock markets. At
the same time, the repercussions of increasingly scarce, overabundant
or polluted water reproduce social and political divisions and
hierarchies. Clear separations between water and land, as upheld
conceptually and materially by Western modernity, are increasingly
difficult to uphold. This panel invites ethnographically informed
discussions on fluctuating horizons of wetness along coasts and in
floodplains, for architecture and agriculture, and related to the
infrastructures and policies of their containment. How do changing
water regimes insert themselves into existing social and cultural
processes? How, in turn, do current social and cultural arrangements
speed up or abate the proliferation of wet horizons? How are
more-than-human beings, including animals, plants and spirits,
involved in these re-articulations? While scrutinizing these processes
of hydrosocial transformation, we are equally interested in questions
of stability and endurance. This concerns not only the ways in which
some horizons may appear unstable to us, but reliable and enduring to
our research participants, but also the efforts that go into
stabilizing particular hydrosocial relations or distributions of
wetness in the context of a changing world. A more nuanced approach to
these re-articulations has the potential to counter alarmist disaster
narratives of floods and droughts by foregrounding the concrete
hydrosocial assemblages that (un)make wet horizons.
You can submit your abstract through this link: CFP "Wet horizons" Panel[1]
We look forward to receive your abstracts!
Best wishes,
Benoit Ivars
Franz Krause
Sandro Simon
Nora Horisberger
Werner Krauß
Liens:
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http://delta.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/delta_news.html?&L=1&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=1347&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=4aa75e22979d9bdc5dda827417869b99
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