Water Logs: A Study of Global Water Crisis in Three Plays

为了更好地了解当前世界各地城市面临的水危机，本文采用剧本写作和文化研究方法，如记忆工作和档案研究来研究印度钦奈的情况。从历史上看，水体的维护和利用在印度是一项严肃的由社区主导的工作，具有仪式意义。但今天，水是一种商品，可以买卖、开采、铺路和污染。本文研究剧本如何重新引导城市的社会想象来解决水危机，以及导致危机的想象是如何形成的。

In order to better understand the current water crisis faced by cities around the world, this thesis uses playwriting, and cultural studies methodologies such as memory work, and archival research to look at the situation in Chennai, India. Historically the maintenance and use of water bodies was serious community-led work with ritualistic significance in India. But today water is a commodity that is bought, sold, drilled for, paved over and polluted. This thesis studies how play scripts might redirect a city's social imaginary to address the water crisis, and how the imaginary which led to the crises came to be.