Caminando por los ríos, sintiendo sus infraestructuras
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Observing the Just Transition: From Colombia to COP28
By Emma Banks, Bucknell University When I stopped by the Colombia Pavilion during week two of COP28, I was greeted by a familiar name on the speakers’ list:…
The ‘Spectacle’ of Youth Participation at COP 28
By Mark Ortiz, the Pennsylvania State University An image of the exterior of the Youth Hub in the COP 28 Green Zone, Dubai, UAE. Photo taken by Author.…
COP City and the Caribbean Climate Masquerade
By Ryan Cecil Jobson, The University of Chicago In November 2023, Caribbean heads-of-state, government ministers, and environmental advisors arrived in the United Arab Emirates for the COP28 C…
Ethnographic Insights into Climate Worlds
A Special Ethnographic Collection on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28). By Emily Hite (Saint Loui…
On the Translucence of Water
By Alejandro Camargo, History and Social Sciences Department, Universidad del Norte, Colombia. “In the depths of the river, our hands are our eyes.” Catching bagre pintao (Pseudoplatystoma mag…
Walking Along Rivers, Feeling Through Infrastructures
By Laura Betancur Alarcón (Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems-IRI THESys at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and Ana María Arbeláez-Trujillo (Water Res…
Infrastructural Ecologies, and the Politics of Knowledge: A Special Commentary
By Maira Hayat, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. The three essays by Habib, Alarcón and Arbeláez-Trujillo, and Mamidipudi take the reader to worlds of…
Exploring PFAS contamination’s impact on groundwater and environmental governance
By Colleen Linn, Wayne State University. Groundwater is difficult to observe (Ballestero 2019, Walsh 2018), and is an elusive substance despite being the most relied upon drinking water…
A Tale of Three Springs: The Masks and Desires of Water’s Infrastructure
By Peter Habib, Department of Anthropology, Emory University. I came across it on a blazing Monday, tucked away next to a small dikkān (corner store) and a complex…
The Taste of Dwindling Flows, Chowdy fish in the Little Rann of Kutch in India
By Sita Mamidipudi, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Too Salty Najma and her family are Muslim fishworkers who live half a mile away from…
On Permeable Waters and Landscapes: A Special Commentary
By Sayd Randle, College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University. Walking along a covered aqueduct’s path through the desert, water can seem remarkably contained, cleanly se…
The Many Worlds of Brine: Disputed Water Worlds in the Argentine Puna and Beyond
By Melisa Escosteguy (Non-Conventional Energy Research Institute-INENCO-CONICET, Universidad de Salta) and Maria Labourt (Department of Sociology, University of Southern California). Transform…
Deep Time Exposures
Upward view of two buildings affected by earthquakes in Mexico City, Lachlan Summers, 2023. By Lachlan Summers, Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, M…
Call for Posts: Disputed Water Worlds
Chorros Blancos Waterfall, Cajamarca, Colombia. Photograph by Ángela Castillo-Ardila, 2019. How do people and other beings relate to water across its multiple forms and scales? Water exists in…