Water is a pressing question for the Anthropocene. Ocean acidification, rising sea levels, erratic drought alongside dramatic flooding, plastic contamination, and large-scale hydroengineering all underscore the ways in which water – necessary for all planetary life is under constant assault from anthropogenic sources. In this thematic cluster, we seek greater understanding not only of these problems, but of the human values, worldviews and imaginaries that led to them in the first place. Our research also aims to highlight the ways in which intersectional human social justice issues related to gender, coloniality, racism, classism, and speciesism are entangled in questions of water health, abundance and access. Our thematic cluster is particularly invested with feminist and anticolonial perspectives, and has produced world-leading and pathbreaking research on this score.
Scientific Leader: Astrida Neimanis, University of Sydney
Projects
Publications
More and More (A Guide to the Harmonized System)Article by Neimanis, Astrida
No Representation without Colonization? (Or, Nature Represents Itself )Article by Neimanis, Astrida
Thinking with Matter, Rethinking Irigaray: Bodies of Water for a Planetary Feminism.Article by Neimanis, Astrida
Weather Writing: A Feminist Materialist Practice for (Getting Outside) the Classroom.Article by Öhman, May-Britt and M. Palo, Eva-Lotta Thunqvist
Public participation, Human Security and Public Safety around Dams in Sweden: A Case Study of the Regulated Ume and Lule RiversArticle by Öhman, May-Britt
Embodied Vulnerability in Large-Scale Technical Systems: Vulnerable Dam Bodies, Water Bodies and Human BodiesConference by Neimanis, Astrida
Hacking the Anthropocene: Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for an Alter-Anthropocene.Seminar by Neimanis, Astrida
Chemical Weapons and Suspended Times in the Gotland DeepSeminar by Neimanis, Astrida
Water as a Queer Archive of FeelingMeeting by Neimanis, Astrida
StygofaunaSeminar by Neimanis, Astrida
Water and a Posthuman Politics of LocationLecture by Neimanis, Astrida
Fishy Beginnings (We are all Bodies of Water)Seminar by Neimanis, Astrida
Residual Waters: The Morning AfterSeminar by Neimanis, Astrida
Chemical Weapons and Suspended Times in the Gotland DeepWorkshop by Neimanis, Astrida
Writing into the Environmental Humanities.Seminar by Neimanis, Astrida
Water, Deep Time, and Planetary Archives of FeelingSeminar by Gerhardt, Christina
Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level RiseSeminar by Össbo, Åsa
Damage Done: Exploring the ongoing consequences for local Sámi communities as a result of the Swedish Hydropower expansionWorkshop by Sehlin MacNeil, Kristina and Åsa Össbo
Working together: what impacts can research have on Indigenous communities?Lecture by Össbo, Åsa and Kristina Sehlin MacNeil
Damage DoneWorkshop by Neimanis, Astrida
Water as a Queer Archive of Feeling: Queer Ecologies and Reparative Readings for the AnthropoceneArticle by Neimanis, Astrida and Aleksija Neimanis, and Cecilia Åsberg
Fathoming chemical weapons in the Gotland DeepLecture by Lyne, Isaac
Doing plastic-bottled water differently? The role of social entrepreneurship in delivering community-managed infrastructuresFilm by Eernstman, Natalia and Wals, Arjen; Pearon, Kelli; Bjurström, Åse Eliason; de Vrieze, Anke
Imaginative Disruptions – short documentaryStage performance by Pope, Simon and Stephens, Lindsay
Dear Lindsay: about Discussion Island
