The Center for
the Study of Global Change welcomes faculty, staff, and students to join us at
our next Global
Studies Positioning Series (GSPS) Discussion:
The Political Ecology of Water: Human-Water Relationships in a
Changing Climate
THURSDAY, MARCH 5TH – NOON TO
1PM
"This is an important interdisciplinary work that uses a
place-based approach to examine human relationships with water in the context
of globalisation.... [T]he detailed explorations of the human propensity to
continue to engage in devastating practices with water, and whether social and
environmental justice movements can do anything about these practices is
insightful.....[W]hat Kane has to say is worthwhile; she illuminates the
struggles that lay people face in getting juridical institutions to implement
the law to protect waters in a precautionary manner." —Environmental Politics
PROFESSOR STEPHANIE KANE
The science of
climate change introduced dramatic uncertainty into human-water relationships,
destabilized established protocols of storm prediction, complicated the design
and operation of flood control systems, and should stretch the time frame of
environmental impact assessment. Based on her fall 2014 ethnographic research
among engineers and geographers in the urbanized wet prairielands of Manitoba, Professor Kane will discuss the possibilities and limits
of incorporating “known unknowns” into technical traditions.
GSPS
discussions begin at noon in the conference room at the Global Center
(International Programs, 201 N. Indiana Avenue). Feel free to bring your lunch
(coffee, cookies provided).
Check out other GSPS
Spring 2015 discussions here:
Details
and Poster
For more information,
please contact: global@iu.edu
