Afterword: Kinship Possibilities in Water Futures

Abstract

This special issue of Oceania interrogates the material and cultural factors underpinning water socio‐economies in Australia; a critical project given the wet and dry crises now unfolding in the Anthropocene. Three themes inform the collection – materialities, imaginaries and temporalities – each of which animates a diverse array of ethnographic inquiry into transformative water futures. The radical potential of kinship is also a cross‐cutting theme, with the articles collectively revealing how kin relatedness works to disrupt the categorical framing of ‘modern water’ as an extractive resource.