Water as Artist-Collaborator: Posthumanism and Reconciliation in Relational Media Arts-Based Education

The global climate change-related water crisis, disproportionately affecting peoples marginalised by ongoing settler-colonialism, challenges us to take up a new ontology beyond the Anthropocene. Recognising universities as ethically entangled, my PhD praxis process aimed at engaging universities in reconciliation – of peoples and ecosystems – as a practice. This practice takes the form of a relational university course that involves intra-actions between students, water bodies and technology (audio/video as relational texts) to co-construct water narratives as films. In this paper, using posthuman theories to read the data, I uncover what/who is being changed in this course and how. Most notable of these changes is that of water as becoming collaborator in artistic/knowledge co-production, where students think with water. I argue this renders possible reconciliation understood as a material-discursive practice, with water, (re)configuring relationality to decentre humans and their ways of knowing/being/doing, and to co-constitute more equal power relations between bodies (both human and nonhuman).

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Effect of physical and chemical weathering on water resources: A glacial assessment

Anusandhaan - Vigyaan Shodh Patrika ◽

10.22445/avsp.v5i01.9848 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (01) ◽

Author(s):

Sipika Sundriyal ◽

Tanuj Shukla ◽

Sanjay Shukla

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Chemical Weathering ◽

Global Climate ◽

Water Crisis ◽

The Past ◽

Rivers And Lakes ◽

Huge Impact ◽

Physical And Chemical ◽

Change Problem

Global climate change has a huge impact on our environment. The shrinking of the glaciers has affected not only the rivers and lakes but also the animals and birds. According to IPCC reports, climatic change is adversely affecting the glaciers and the trend will increase with the passage of time. The green house gases added by human activities are increasing the global temperature. Some glaciers are receding by 20 meters per year while few smaller ones have vanished or have come on the verge of extinction. The most of the rivers of South Asia like Ganga, Yamuna, Sindhu, Brahmaputra, etc. are fed by glaciers. In the absence of glaciers, these rivers will become seasonal rivers. This will affect lives of millions of people residing in their respective valleys/ plains, and have to face drought and flood frequently. In this research, the physical parameter of water has been studied in relation to the climate change, and their effects of glacier have been summed up. Over the past few decades, melting and retreat of the glaciers of the Himalayas have emerged as a major problem. In many Himalayan states, various types of efforts and research are being done to preserve the glaciers, to overcome the water crisis and climate change problem in future.

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Introduction – An Amphibious Anthropology: The Production of Place at the Confluence of Land and Water

Anthropologica ◽

10.3138/anth.582.t00.en ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 58 (2) ◽

pp. 135-149 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Karine Gagné ◽

Mattias Borg Rasmussen

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Political Economy ◽

Natural Resources ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Ways Of Knowing ◽

Relational Ontology ◽

Global Political Economy

Amid global climate change and an uneven global political economy that preys on natural resources, landscapes are reshaped at the confluence of land and water, concretely and abstractly. Focusing on the production of place, we suggest that at their point of convergence, there is relational ontology between land and water. This constitutive relationality is the basis of what we call an amphibious anthropology. By foregrounding temporality, movement, and ways of knowing, we aim to grasp the experience of places at the confluence of land and water and to probe into the specificities of life in such landscapes or into various amphibious anthropologies.

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