CFP: Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water
I’ve copied below the CFP for a special issue, see original here. Special Issue CFP: Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water Overview [Feb 3, 2016] Decolonization: Indigeneity,…
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Jason Moore: Capitalism and the Web of Life
Jason Moore speaking on his new book from Verso. There is also an interesting review of the book here at New Inquiry. A short description from Verso: “Finance.…
New Book! Kathryn Furlong: Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence
Material below copied from book site at UBC Press here. Municipalities face important water supply challenges. These are widely attributed to local government politicization. Neoliberal reforms have …
Tim Ingold’s One World Anthropology
synthetic zero ” As philosophical fashions lurch from one extreme to the other — from the hyper-relativism of the cultural construction industry to the ever-multiplying essentialisms of the…
Themes on Territory, Justice, and Rivers: a collection
Territory and Justice: a research network Foreword by Cara Nine Papers delivered by participants at the ?Themes on Territory, Justice, and Rivers? Workshop (4-5 June 2015, UCC) Paulina…
Dustin Garrick on Water Security
From the recent conference in Oxford:
Joanna Zylinska: minimal ethics for the Anthropocene
An interesting new book on Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene from Open Humanities Press here. A related talk below by the author, Joanna Zylinksa:
Charles Taylor on: Democracy, Diversity, Religion
Particularly relevant given the charged contexts of late:
The Shock of the Anthropocene: the Earth, history, and us
This is an interesting looking book, from Verso. “Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply an environmental…
Isabelle Stengers’ new book available open access
Isabelle Stengers’ new book, In Catastrophic Times, is available for free as a .pdf download at this site. Here is a description of the book (which you can…
America’s water cure towns
This is a very interesting piece from citylab, worth checking into if you find previous ways of thinking about human-water (and city!) relationships intriguing.
Water is the theme for 2016 “Under Western Skies” Conference
These conferences in Calgary, Alberta have been very good and the next one, taking place September 2016, is focused on water. The full conference website is here. And…
Water roundup: new books & reports on groundwater and security
Over the weekend I mentioned a new (open access) book on Water, Society, and Technology. There are a couple of other new resources to be had, both from…
New open access book on Water, society, and technology opens with discussion of ethics
You can download the book here.
New Book! Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water
jeremy schmidt: An interesting new title perhaps worth checking into. Originally posted on Discard Studies: Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race’s new book, Plastic Water: The Social and…
The Human Condition in the Anthropocene: Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Tanner Lectures
Two lectures, plus a round table:
Running Dry: Water, People, and the Planet in Marathwada, India
This is a very interesting series on water problems in Marathwada, India. Well worth the read, and certainly important for understands the broader interconnections and logics affecting people…