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SUMMARY:Decolonising Water: Knowing and re-enchanting waters from national
  to local scale (by Daanish Mustafa)
DTSTART:20231005T090000Z
DTEND:20231005T103000Z
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DESCRIPTION:There is something fundamentally dysfunctional about how we ha
 ve known and imagined water under modernity. Colonial knowledge systems ha
 ve been deeply intertwined with the project of modernity. Term like\, cubi
 c meters\, average flows\, parts per million of pollutants\, hydraulic gra
 dient among others\, form the foundational vocabulary for knowing and inte
 racting with water\, waterways\, rivers and springs across spatial scales.
  A decolonial imaginary and practice would incorporate the different ways 
 of knowing and living with water\, in addition to\, and not necessarily in
 stead of the colonial (scientific?) tropes that have imprisoned hydro-soci
 al imaginaries. Water has been thought of as a resource or a hazard within
  colonial water imaginaries. A decolonised praxis would emphasise the expe
 rience of water as variegated lens through which to know and live with wat
 er. Drawing upon the examples of 2022 floods in Pakistan\, and the case of
  mountain springs in the post-conflict Swat valley of northern Pakistan\, 
 I make the case for a decolonial praxis of water\, that may usher in a mor
 e gender and class inclusive experience to water from national to local sc
 ales. Water as an instrument of producing a national scale of water manage
 ment is the real villain of the decolonising agenda in water. Re-enchantme
 nt of local waterscapes and re-democratization of hydro-social praxis is o
 ur best hope in negotiating a climate change present.
LOCATION:https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/63570422261?pwd=ZWZsWkMrZFN6TS9mWjN4YX
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ORGANIZER;CN="Douglas Maraun";ROLE=CHAIR:MAILTO:douglas.maraun@uni-graz.at
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