Global Waterways: Sharing research on “perfomative hydraulics” at Stony Brook University

Hydrocommoning Through Pumping: Performative Hydraulics in São Paulo’s Urban Rivers In this paper, I develop the concept of “hydrocommoning” to examine how artistic and activist practices reconfigure human–water relations in São Paulo. I situate these practices within the city’s hydraulic history: from Indigenous habitation along the Tamanduateí to twentieth-century channelization, river reversal, and stream burial …