Society & Natural Resources proudly announces the publication of a special issue on Thinking Relationships through Water. Water, a vital element in virtually every aspect of life, is constantly contested. Whether conflicts around water are political, social, spiritual, or environmental, a deeper understanding of the relationship between humankind and one of our most fundamental resources is a necessity. These six research articles aim, “to contribute to a more explicitly relational study of water in society. Water is not just the object of social relationships, or merely a natural resource on which claims are made, to which meanings are attached, and over which political conflicts erupt...Rather than treating water as an object of social and cultural production—something produced through social relationships and imbued with meaning through cultural schemes—we consider water as a generative and agentive co-constituent of relationships and meanings in society,” write Guest Editors Franz Krause and Veronica Strang. This collection of articles covers a diverse range of water issues: urban drinking water in Indian slums; borehole maintenance in rural Senegal; mains water provision in Kiribati; flood risk management in England; threats to an Australian aquifer; and pollution in a Norwegian fjord. What unites these studies is their close attention to the social and material relations that direct water flows, and to the water movements that, in turn, flow through societal arrangements and cultural imaginaries.
Franz Krause and Veronica Strang remark that, “if we study how social and hydrological relationships are interconnected and mutually constitutive, a much deeper understanding of the role of water in human social lives can be gained, and significantly better management and policy can be designed.”
FREE ACCESS: Society & Natural Resources Volume 29, Issue 6, 2016
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