In this working group, we take on the challenge of listening to, talking with, and writing about, many kinds of water, in a range of humanistic disciplines, and a range of places. Access to water is a key site where many forms of inequity are enacted, especially for women, Indigenous people, and other marginalized groups. Reflections on water are also a critical site for moving beyond a critique of commodification, capitalism, colonialism, to enacting other ways of knowing, governing, being, doing and relating. Participants will consider the multiple ways that waters move and act, the various ways that waters speak, and the various themes and forms that writing water may require.
Leads
- Bonnie McElhinny, A&S Anthropology
- Alaa Mitwaly, Ph.D. cand., Anthropology
Faculty Members, University of Toronto
- Comfort Azubuko-Udah, English
- Waqas Butt, UTSC Anthropology
- Bhavani Raman, UTSC Anthropology
- Anne Spice, UTM Anthropology
- Alissa Trotz, Women & Gender Studies
- Jane Wolff, Architecture
- Adrien Zakar, History & Philosophy of Science & Technology (IHPST)
Staff member, University of Toronto
- Nick Field, UTL Map & Data Library
Graduate Students, University of Toronto
- Olivier Beaudoin, (MA) Architecture
- Laura Carvalho, Anthropology
- Sharina Chowdhury, Anthropology
- Ata Heshmati, IHPST
- Keegan Manson-Currey, Music
- Este Orantes, Anthropology
- Jordan Ramnarine, Anthropology
- Wenjing Zhang, (MA) Anthropology