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Many predict that conflict over water will define the twenty-first century as human populations climb, consumption increases, economic insecurity mounts, and climate change destabilizes existing patterns of water supply and demand. Often, the projects and organizations seeking to mitigate these impending conflicts operate as if there were only one right way to experience, imagine, use, and share water—to “do water,” one might say. When water is framed as a limited resource, its singular nature increasingly appears self-evident and universal, and it becomes easy to believe that all water is “one water”: a chemical compound (H2O) whose properties are the same no matter where it is found or what transformations it has undergone along its path. By conceptualizing water as one, these approaches seek to enable stakeholder consensus on how water should be managed as it moves from body to body through shared environments.

水研究方式的成员同意,世界面临着具有多种起源,即将来临的后果和不确定解决方案的水危机。在这种情况下,缓解冲突取决于将有不同需求,价值,经验和资源的人聚集在一起。但是,我们对将水概念化为单一的普遍物质有助于建立共识的想法表示怀疑。相反,我们将水理解为局部,位置和体现,在有效合作是编织而不是汇合的问题上。从这个角度来看,水不断地摆脱减少的努力。

Rather than seeking to bring all stakeholders to a shared understanding of water’s significance, the Ways of Water research collective is developing tools and methods to recognize, preserve, and even enrich the diversity of human entanglements with waters—as substances, symbols, and vital components of our environments. Doing so humanizes the often-technocratic structures inclined to reduce water to a singular, universal good for humanity as a whole, while inviting corporations, governments, and municipalities to recognize and respond to ways of valuing, understanding, and using water that they might otherwise ignore.

本系列的论文代表了集体的作品样本。自2017年以来,在SSRC的支持下Scholarly Borderlands initiative,我们组成的学者和从业人员一直在探索一种研究和教学方法,该方法将水域的水域集中在特定地点和人际关系中,而不是假设水在整个水社会周期中循环不变。这种方法庆祝方法和概念上的差异,而不是试图标准化它们。

在阐明我们对水的多样性的地位时,我们借鉴了多个来源。从传统意义上讲,其中一些是学术性的。其他是学术合作实验在跨学科的边境地区,包括表达的努力最佳实践进行此类研究;而其他人则将艺术干预和批评以及抵抗和团结的运动整合在一起。这样做会邀请人们知道水以与仍然具有优势的计算和管理模式同等地走路。我们询问邀请和热情好客的方式,以实现有关如何在差异上“做”水的对话。我们认为,这种对话对于与水的公正,可持续和多样化的关系至关重要。

我们认识到,这种框架设置对我们得出普遍结论的能力,即使是方法和方法的固有限制。水将人们聚集在一起,但是有时有必要接受没有被邀请进入水坑的人。因此,我们接受有关水及其所做的一些问题,必须在本地保持位置,直到另行通知为止。

鉴于这些目的和局限性,水集体的方式确定了几种核心方法论因素对于遇到他人的水域至关重要:实施的重要性,智力谦虚和对权力不平等的关注。这些原则将我们的工作跨越学科,实践和政治承诺联系起来。以这些考虑为中心,桥接我们的调查和行动的文本,视觉和表演方式截然不同,以实现协作创造和教育。这种方法反映在本集中的文章中,可以将其视为以体现,位置,适度,专注于权力和不公正的方式检查我们自己和他人的水体的实验,并对水的固有多重性开放。

该系列已由克里斯蒂·斯帕克曼(Christy Spackman),,,,assistant professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University; andEtienne Benson,,,,associate professor in the History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania.

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