Hi,As you are aware, UnitedNations has declared 2018-28 as the Decade of Water, such is the bio-politicalimportance of this issue for communities, states, nation, and globally withprivatization and climate change politics underway. We feel this provides uswith a timely context. I am also writing to draw your attention to aConference panel at Shifting States Shifting States <http://www.shiftingstates.info/cfp>
The panelists are alsoinvited to attend another half-day workshop at the end of the conference (wehave secured funding for holding this event separately) to work on conceptualsynthesis and to finalize publication plans of an anthology. We encourage contributionsfrom early-career anthropologists, geographers, and social scientists inparticular who have done recent ethnographic work.
Hydroscapes andHydrosocial States: Culture and the Political Ecology of Water Governance at the international event ShiftingStates <http://www.shiftingstates.info/cfp>
Hydroscapes and Hydrosocial States: Culture and thePolitical Ecology of Water Governance
· Organizers: Georgina Drew (University ofAdelaide) and Vibha Arora (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
For all the details and information to propose apaper, see the website
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Short abstract
Thispanel examines hydro-socially informed demands for policy makers to craft watergovernance with cultural sensitivity and socio-economic responsibility. The aimis to infuse the political ecology of water with ethnographies of the stateattentive to the role of culture, affect and cosmopolitics.
Long abstract
Thispanel analyses the inter-relationship between the lived experience ofhydro-sociality, the role of market and state on water management, and shiftingparadigms of water governance. Given the strong hydro-affective relationshipssome societies display, the trans-boundary nature of water-flows, and therising incidence of inter-state and intra-state water conflicts, we seek toexplore the linkages between hydro-sociality and hydro-states. The corporatizationof water resources and the commodification of waterscapes, the emerging freshwater scarcity with global climate change, and the rise of water warriorsnecessitate critical reflections on the political ecology of water governance.With this in mind, the panel invites ethnographically grounded discussions anddocumentation of citizen and policy-led initiatives demanding the state to besocio-culturally sensitive in its development agenda, and to evolveparticipatory resource governance and decision-making paradigms in variedcontexts. Recent examples include the acts of resistance of the WaterProtectors striving to safeguard the Dakota plains as well as the newjudicial-legislative moves to recognise ‘personhood’ in culturally andreligiously significant rivers in New Zealand and India. Such phenomena exhibitthe encounter between the lived experiences of hydro-sociality ('hydro-socialstates'), demands for culturally sensitive development practices, citizenencounters with hydro-markets and hydrological governance ('hydro-socialStates'). The infusion of anthropological concerns that include human-nonhumanrelationships, multispecies affects, religious perspectives on water andcosmopolitics will enrich discussions on the political ecology of water. Thepanelists are also invited to attend a half-day workshop at the end of theconference to work on conceptual synthesis and publication plans.
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Ms Vibha Arora, D.Phil Oxon
Associate Professor, Sociology and SocialAnthropology
MS642, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 INDIA
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Co-editor of Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas (2013, Routledge)Co-editor of Democratization in the Himalayas (2017, Routledge)
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