The Great Artesian Basin: A Contested Resource Environment of Subterranean Water and Coal Seam Gas in Australia

Rijke, Kim de; Munro, Paul; Zurita, María de Lourdes Melo

doi:10.1080/08941920.2015.1122133

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“…Subterranean water has a material curiousness that, as others have shown (de Rijke, Munro & de Lourdes ), may be considered a broad characteristic of underground things. Hydrological studies of the nature of the water in the Salar de Atacama define the material problematic of this little‐known environmental object.…”

Section: Groundwater's Political Capacity and The Agency Of Powerful mentioning

confidence: 88%

Sustaining ignorance: the uncertainties of groundwater and its extraction in the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile

Babidge

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The extraction of groundwater and the regulation of its use in many parts of the world have been found to present a particular kind of problem. A contest involving mining companies, an ‘impacted’ community, and the state arising from groundwater and its extraction in the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile, provides a stark example. What marks the case are the many uncertainties about underground water and the quantities extracted. This article argues that uncertainty characterizes conditions of ‘late industrialism’ and that corporate practice that sustains ignorance is a form of powerful agency that in turn maintains the conditions for potentially harmful extractive activity. Critically engaging with the proposition that water may act in the relational process of unknowing contributes to the analysis of how corporate practice may sustain ignorance. This also suggests that alternative political responses to uncertainty are possible.

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Section: Groundwater's Political Capacity and The Agency Of Powerful mentioning

confidence: 88%

Sustaining ignorance: the uncertainties of groundwater and its extraction in the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile

Babidge

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…To understand the underground as more than a place of extraction and vertical territorial exploitation, de Rijke et al. () acknowledge multiple other “undergrounds” that shape and are shaped by surface socio‐cultural processes. Exploring these other undergrounds provides new insights into vertical colonial and postcolonial relations (de Rijke et al., ; Munro & Melo Zurita, ).…”

Section: Ground Water and Surface Water Connections And Disconnectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To understand the underground as more than a place of extraction and vertical territorial exploitation, de Rijke et al (2016) acknowledge multiple other "undergrounds" that shape and are shaped by surface socio-cultural processes. Exploring these other undergrounds provides new insights into vertical colonial and postcolonial relations (de Rijke et al, 2016;Munro & Melo Zurita, 2011). Wiradjuri knowledges of groundwater systems, for example, acknowledge the interactions of surface and subterranean waters, while often simultaneously looking at future impacts of ignoring these relations in the short term.…”

Section: Ground Water and Surface Water Connections And Disconnectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shadow waters: Making Australian water cultures visible

McLean

Lonsdale²,

Hammersley

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Trans Inst British Geog

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Connections between people and water have received considerable attention within geographic research. This paper draws on cultural and historical geographies, political ecology and the environmental humanities to extend understandings of the hydrosocial cycle by focusing on the cultural dimensions of society–water relations through the concept of shadow waters. Shadow waters centres attention on the cultures that privilege certain waters while rendering other waters invisible and marginalised. Inspired by Val Plumwood's notion of “shadow places,” shadow waters brings to light the way power intersects with cultural practices. We bring this concept of shadow waters into conversation with Indigenous water knowledges. Shadow waters can be conceptualised vertically, with surface water receiving more policy and research attention than ground water, and also horizontally, as some sub‐catchments, uses and values have been ignored or undervalued in macro‐catchment processes. Temporally, in considering the past, complex and contested histories of human–environment relations are often overlooked in favour of simple historical narratives that ultimately reinforce dominant management structures and trajectories. Shadow waters are thus historically created as particular power structures and narratives are reinforced and “normalised” over time. This paper examines shadow waters in southeastern Australia, elucidating the way two rivers are interwoven and co‐determined in cultures of water use in this context. We show how the rethinking of dominant water cultures, made possible by cross‐cultural engagement, generates new possibilities for reconnection, restoration and protection; a different water ethics based on care and responsibility that addresses power relations and injustices.

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“…It is an axiom in contemporary critical social science to recognise, with varying ontologies [70,71], that there are multiple, often contested, social constructions of reality [72]. Knowledge is contested, as noted with the Baltic Sea case study:…”

Section: Recognising Multiple Constructions Of a Dilemmamentioning

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Global Water Governance and Climate Change: Identifying Innovative Arrangements for Adaptive Transformation

Zurita

Thomsen

Holbrook

et al. 2018

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A convoluted network of different water governance systems exists around the world. Collectively, these systems provide insight into how to build sustainable regimes of water use and management. We argue that the challenge is not to make the system less convoluted, but rather to support positive and promising trends in governance, creating a vision for future environmental outcomes. In this paper, we analyse nine water case studies from around the world to help identify potential 'innovative arrangements' for addressing existing dilemmas. We argue that such arrangements can be used as a catalyst for crafting new global water governance futures. The nine case studies were selected for their diversity in terms of location, scale and water dilemma, and through an examination of their contexts, structures and processes we identify key themes to consider in the milieu of adaptive transformation. These themes include the importance of acknowledging socio-ecological entanglements, understanding the political dimensions of environmental dilemmas, the recognition of different constructions of the dillema, and the importance of democratized processes.

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The Great Artesian Basin: A Contested Resource Environment of Subterranean Water and Coal Seam Gas in Australia

Cited by 52 publications

References 49 publications

Sustaining ignorance: the uncertainties of groundwater and its extraction in the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile

Sustaining ignorance: the uncertainties of groundwater and its extraction in the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile

Shadow waters: Making Australian water cultures visible

Global Water Governance and Climate Change: Identifying Innovative Arrangements for Adaptive Transformation

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