Heterotic water policy futures using place agency, vernacular knowledge, transformative learning and syncretic governance

Title
Heterotic water policy futures using place agency, vernacular knowledge, transformative learning and syncretic governance
Publication Date
2018
Author(s)
Bartel, Robyn
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6133-3146
Email: rbartel@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:rbartel
Noble, Louise
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7094-6833
Email: lnoble2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lnoble2
Beck, Wendy Elizabeth
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8020-9805
Email: wbeck@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:wbeck
Editor
Editor(s): Robyn Bartel, Louise Noble, Jacqueline Williams, Stephen Harris
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
London, United Kingdom
Series
Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
UNE publication id
une:22398
Abstract
The interrelated existence of humanity and environment is made starkly apparent by the dire consequences forecast for both humans and the globe in the (proposed) Anthropocene epoch (Crutzen & Stoermer, 2000; Crutzen, 2002). Delusions of human 'superiority' amidst human/non-human divisions have contributed to a collapse of Earth systems, and it is perhaps the ultimate irony that this may lead to our own demise at the hands of nature. As Latour (2014) has observed, 'through a complete reversal of Western philosophy's most cherished trope, human societies have resigned themselves to playing the role of dumb object, while nature has unexpectedly taken on that of the active subject!' (pp. 11-12). Several neologisms have been crafted in an attempt to describe humannature relationships beyond dualism, including envirosocial (Bartel et al., 2014 ), hydrosocial (Linton, 2010, 2014; Linton & Budds, 2014; Swyngedouw et al., 2002; Wilson, 2014), social-ecological (Eerkes et al., 2003; Folke et al., 2005), earth system science (Gifford et al., 2010), socionatures and naturecultures (see Haraway, 2008; White, 2006), as well as waterscapes (see Karpouzoglou and Vij, 2017). Such terms have arisen from the decentring of the human, particularly in environmental (especially ecocentric) research, and from the increasing recognition in the humanities of non-human agency, as well as the relational and new materialism turns in scholarship more broadly (see Castree & MacMillan, 2001).
Link
Citation
Water Policy, Imagination and Innovation, p. 234-256
ISBN
9781138729377
Start page
234
End page
256

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