"One Man's Flood Defense Is Another Man's Flood": Relating Through Water Flows in Gloucestershire, England
"One Man's Flood Defense Is Another Man's Flood": Relating Through Water Flows in Gloucestershire, England
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“一个人的防洪就是另一个人的洪水”:通过英国格洛斯特郡的水流联系起来
DOI:
10.1080/08941920.2015.1107787
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Krause F
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作者:
Krause F
Presenting voices and observations from flood-affected people in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, this article analyzes the relationships that flooding engenders through the material dynamics of water, and argues that flooding illustrates how particular social relations are simultaneously hydrological, and vice versa. It presents the variability of water flows in people’s environments, and the local differentiation of normal and exception floods. By outlining the residents’ concern about drainage, their hydrosociality, that is, an understanding of relatedness through and with water, is sketched. It is explored how these hydrosocial relations become intensely political, where insiders and outsiders, and beneficiaries and losers, are configured in relation to water and flood risk. Finally, the article shows how pollution in flooding emerges out of perceived disorderly flows, when water moves into a place along the wrong trajectory and embodying the wrong characteristics. Where one person’s or group’s defenses can easily turn into another’s increased risk, water flows and social relations are intimately entwined.