water justice – Lisa Blackmore

Hydrocommoning, Cultural Studies Colloquium, UC Santa Cruz

by Lisa October 24, 2024October 24, 2024No Comments

In this talk, I presented ‘hydrocommoning’ as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. I laid out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously situated embodied …

Mapping Hydrocommons Cultures in the Americas, UC Santa Cruz

by Lisa October 1, 2024October 24, 2024No Comments

We’re grateful to Prof. Amanda Smith from UC Santa Cruz for the invitation to give the inaugural session of the brand new More-than-human(ities) Laboratory. In this session, we’ll talk about a series of mapping processes that we’ve been engaged in with river communities in Latin America. We’ll explore how art and humanities research intersects with …

How can art support more just human-water relations?

by Lisa September 20, 2024October 24, 2024No Comments

I’ll be sharing in-progress research at this research seminar as part of my time as Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC California, Berkeley, where I’m working with Prof. Michael Mascarenhas. I’m going to be talking about the expanding map of coalitions forming across Latin America that are connecting …