Programme

27 MAY

Venue: Linna 5026, Tampere University, Finland.

https://tuni.zoom.us/s/66317031615

Meeting ID: 663 1703 1615
Passcode: 898253

10 – 10:30 INTRODUCTION, Ismaël Maazaz and Iuliia Gataulina

10:30 – 12 KEYNOTE TALK Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester, “A political critique of political ecology”

12–13 LUNCH 

13–15 PANEL 1: CRITIQUE OF ANTHROPOCENTRIC, NEOLIBERAL, AND COLONIAL WATER GOVERNANCE AND RESEARCH 

  • Madina Gazieva, Dublin City University, “Hydrosocial reterritorialisation and smallholder farming under Uzbekistan’s New Green Economy” 
  • Monica Tennberg, University of Lapland (online), “Blue Biopolitics at the Baltic Sea: The framework” 
  • Olli-Pekka Haavisto, independent activist, Tampere “Fresh water, colonialism, and we as a part of it” 
  • Iuliia Gataulina, Tampere University, “Neoliberal abstraction of water in the global water finance” 

15–15:30 COFFEE BREAK 

15:30–17 PANEL 2: SENSING AND KNOWING WATER 

  • Matti Salo et al., LUKE, “Making sense of water as a worldview boundary in Chile, Peru and Colombia”
  • Mirjami Lantto Klein (co-authors, Michał Dawid and Isabel Val Sánchez, are present online), Aalto University, “Hydrosemiotic Entanglements”
  • Lilia Bakanova, UK, “We used to be seaweed”

 

28 MAY 

Venue: Linna 5026, Tampere University, Finland.

https://tuni.zoom.us/s/66317031615

Meeting ID: 663 1703 1615
Passcode: 898253

10 – 11:30 PANEL 3: WATER, INFRASTRUCTURES, AND EXTRACTIVISM 

  • Mira Käkönen, Australian National University (online), “Extractive infrastructures and violent fluvial volatilities” 
  • Ismaël Maazaz, Tampere University, “Fluid artefacts? Improvising regimes and sociopolitical relations near water fountains”
  • Tuomas Tammisto, Tampere University, “Water is the enemy of roads.” Road-building in riverine landscape of Papua New Guinea” 

11:30–12:30 LUNCH 

12:30–14:30 PANEL 4: INDIGENOUS AND CULTURAL APPROACHES TO WATER GOVERNANCE 

  • Anna Ott, SYKE, “The pluriverse and convivial conservation: Learning from alternative conservation approaches” 
  • Shahid Mallick, University of Eastern Finland, “Nature-based adaptations; Importance of Indigenous knowledge in water adaptation in coastal zones of global south/ Bangladesh” 
  • Danna Masad, Tampere University, “Lifeworld infrastructure: Injasah water cisterns as infrastructure of Indigenous pastoralism in the occupied West Bank” 

14:30 – CONCLUDING REMARKS