Water as "Time-Substance": The Hydrosocialities of Climate Change in Nepal
Water as "Time-Substance": The Hydrosocialities of Climate Change in Nepal
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水作为“时间物质”：尼泊尔气候变化的水社会性
DOI：
10.1080/24694452.2017.1329005
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Clark J
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作者：
Clark J
本文发展了一个新的理论框架来解释水的处境如何与其政治代理。最近的后人类学者强调这些品质，但令人惊讶的是，没有持续的分析已经进行了这种相互关系。在这里，我们这样做的理论水作为一个“时间物质”重新定位人类水文斗争（包括那些加剧了气候变化）周围的拓扑结构和时间性，而不是水的空间性。这种创新的方法开辟了基于水社会形态、水社会转变和水社会信息（在此统称为水社会）的地理调查新领域。我们认为，水社会性能够追踪超越时间和尺度的人水关系，以及主体和客体的基本类别，以克服水的情境代理二元性。借鉴两年的实地考察，在尼泊尔木斯塘，这一概念框架部署在两个偏远的山区社区研究水社会性。我们展示了由社会和水文在空间和时间上的多个接近点组成的不同水知识实践的水社会性。反过来，这个概念框架强调了边界对象在调解水的情境代理质量的重要性。文章的结论是，因此，边界对象可以发挥至关重要的作用，在产生新的实际水文社会政治的气候变化减缓和适应。
This article develops a novel theoretical framework to explain how water's situatedness relates to its political agency. Recent posthuman scholarship emphasizes these qualities but, surprisingly, no sustained analysis has been undertaken of this interrelation. Here we do so by theorizing water as a “time-substance” to reposition human hydrological struggles (including those exacerbated by climate change) around the topologies and temporalities rather than the spatialities of water. This innovative approach opens up new areas of geographical enquiry based on hydrosocial forms, hydrosocial transformations, and hydrosocial information (collectively referred to here ashydrosocialities). We contend that hydrosocialities enable the tracing of human–water relations that transcend times and scales and the matricial categories of subject and object to overcome the situated–agential binary of water. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in Mustang, Nepal, this conceptual framework is deployed to examine hydrosocialities in two remote mountain communities. We show hydrosocialities that comprise diverse water knowledge practices constituted from multiple points of proximity between the social and the hydrological in space and time. In turn, this conceptual framework underscores the importance of boundary objects in mediating water's situated–agential qualities. The article concludes that consequently boundary objects can play a crucial role in producing new practical hydrosocial politics of climate change mitigation and adaptation.