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

为了更好地了解当前世界各地的城市所面临的水危机，本论文使用剧本创作，文化研究的方法，如记忆工作，和档案研究，看看在印度金奈的情况。从历史上看，在印度，水体的维护和使用是由社区领导的具有仪式意义的严肃工作。但是今天的水是一种商品，被买卖、钻探、铺设和污染。本论文研究剧本如何引导城市的社会想象以应对水危机，以及导致水危机的社会想象是如何形成的。

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.