In the context of increasing contestation over limited water resources, indigenous peoples are emerging as significant political actors. Indigeneity has been mobilized and articulated within the context of water conflicts related to urbanization, development, extractive industries, conservation, and commodification. Rethinking the water-indigeneity nexus leads us to understand the production of emerging waterscapes that are connected to these processes. Within this context, the proposed session invites papers that explore questions such as: how indigenous peoples are shaping water management, how waterscapes are transformed by indigenous political action, how indigenous peoples are reframing their own positionality as political actors, and how hegemonic ideas of indigeneity have changed over time.
We seek papers that engage theoretically or empirically with the topics listed below, but are by no means limited to them.
– The hydro-social cycle
– Indigenous waterscapes
– Indigenous water rights
– Multiculturalism and identity politics
– Transnational and cosmopolitan indigeneity
– Water conflicts and dispossession
– Commodification of water and competing water values
– Indigenous knowledge/expertise in resource management
If you are interested in joining the session, please send an abstract (250 words) to Manuel Prieto (mjpm@email.arizona.edu) and Lucero Radonic (Radonic@email.arizona.edu) by November 25th, 2013. Feel free to contact either organizer with questions.
Manuel Prieto
School of Geography and Development
University of Arizona
School of Geography and Development
University of Arizona
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