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‘Fluid Dispossessions’: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures
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This special issue on ‘“Fluid Dispossessions’: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures” examines the multiple and mutable relationships between water, dispossession and property. We use ‘fluid dispossessions’ as an analytical prompt to examine the different ways in which water’s biophysical properties, its material fluidity and movements (and the more-than-human species that move with it), shape processes of capitalist extraction, accumulation and dispossession. Fluid dispossessions go beyond the power politics of controlling water as a resource to include indirect and more-than-economic forms of dispossession. By analysing emic understandings of dispossession, we draw on ‘fluid dispossessions’ to reject binary categorisations of liquid:solid in order to reveal the diversity of ways capitalist extractive activities may disrupt existing affective, ecological, or spiritual relations with water. This can cause more-than-economic forms of dispossession such as the loss of social reproduction, emotional distress, loss of health, the rupturing of multispecies relations and local care practices of waterscapes.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dewan, C., & Nustad, K. G.
- Affiliations
- Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Venue
- Ethnos
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2023-07-11
- Volume
- 89
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 389-400
- ISSN
- 0014-1844
- 1469-588X
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 62
- Language
- en
- Funders
- Norges Forskningsråd (Global Trout (287438))
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