Interdisciplinary Critical Geographies of Water: Capturing the Mutual Shaping of Society and Hydrological Flows
Interdisciplinary Critical Geographies of Water: Capturing the Mutual Shaping of Society and Hydrological Flows
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水的跨学科关键地理学：捕捉社会和水文流量的相互塑造
作者：
Maria Rusca;G. di Baldassarre
鉴于最近呼吁更多地致力于跨学科努力，本文反思了跨社会科学和自然科学的水的关键地理的含义。在水的关键地理学和社会水文学领域，都提出了关于如何最好地研究水与社会之间的关系的问题。然而，这些学科视角之间几乎没有交叉。我们认为，这可能部分是因为跨学科研究既被提倡也被反对的事实。一方面，跨学科被认为在有效地为政策进程提供信息和发展能够改革和再生知识的理论观点方面提供了更多的成果。另一方面，自然科学和社会科学在本体论、认识论和方法论上往往是不相容的。根据我们自己的研究经验和专业知识，本文着重于水和社会水文学的关键地理学在多种方面的汇聚、兼容和互补。我们反思了从事跨学科研究的现有理论工具，并对自然科学和社会科学之间在方法论和认识论上的不相容的一些假设提出了质疑。然后，我们提出，跨学科的资源地理学可以进一步理解权力和非人类如何共同构成社会世界和水文流动，并推进水作为社会性的概念化。
In light of recent calls for an increased commitment to interdisciplinary endeavors, this paper reflects on the implications of a critical geography of water that crosses social and natural sciences. Questions on how to best research the relationship between water and society have been raised both in the field of critical geographies of water and sociohydrology. Yet, there has been little crossover between these disciplinary perspectives. This, we argue, may be partly explained by the fact that interdisciplinary research is both advocated and antagonized. On the one hand, interdisciplinarity is argued to deliver more in terms of effectively informing policy processes and developing theoretical perspectives that can reform and regenerate knowledge. On the other hand, natural and social sciences are often presented as ontologically, epistemologically, and methodologically incompatible. Drawing on our own research experience and expertise, this paper focuses on the multiple ways in which critical geographies of water and sociohydrology are convergent, compatible, and complementary. We reflect on the existing theoretical instruments to engage in interdisciplinary research and question some of the assumptions on the methodological and epistemological incompatibility between natural and social sciences. We then propose that an interdisciplinary resource geography can further understandings of how power and the non-human co-constitute the social world and hydrological flows and advance conceptualizations of water as socionatures.