{"id":1992,"date":"2023-06-14T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2024-04-04T11:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T09:01:47","slug":"reclaiming-the-notion-of-water-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/2023\/06\/14\/reclaiming-the-notion-of-water-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming the notion of \u2018Water care\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Questioning Knowledge, Narratives and Research Practices in the Water Research Field<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This conference is an invitation to researchers from different fields, social actors and users of water resources to enrich the community of practices around the concept of \u2018water care\u2019<\/em>. This emerging reflection was initiated in June 2022 in a workshop jointly organised by MAK\u2019IT, the joint research unit G-Eau and the Water Governance Group of IHE Delft Institute for Water[1]<\/sup>. We are trying now to explore this concept by discussing and sharing ideas, methods, and bringing concrete examples from fieldwork carried out all over the world on various empirical cases related to water governance and water practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our objective is clear: how to take into account a plurality of knowledge to collectively take care of water in a more efficient and sustainable way?<\/em> Our hypothesis – that taking care of knowledge is necessary to take care of water – raises various research questions that we intend to work out during the conference along two main axes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. How \u2018Care\u2019<\/em> discourses and practices apply to water management and daily practices related to water? We want to understand, based on ethnographic insights, which knowledge, narratives and representations are mobilized through policies, management, agricultural and environmental practices, collective and individual actions to preserve water quantitatively and qualitatively. A particular attention will be given to the social interactions around water and to how caring about water is also a way of caring about social life (minimizing water-related conflicts, fighting appropriation by the most powerful, etc.). We will highlight various discourses and definitions of the “good ways” to manage and take care of water developed by water managers and water users.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. What are the implications of the first question on our own research practices and postures? How, as, researchers from the water field, do we take into account the plurality of knowledge and how do we \u201ctake care\u201d of this knowledge plurality that we are also contributing to produce through interdisciplinary and participative research? This question concerns all disciplines.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    [1] A three-day workshop, including a public event, was organized from 21 to 23 June 2022 on the topic \u201cCaring Matters in Knowing Water\u201d<\/a>.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

    14:00-14:15 Opening Remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

    Patrick Caron<\/strong><\/a>, Director of the Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions (MAK’IT) (France)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

    Hind Sabri<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Researcher in Water Anthropology, MAK\u2019IT\/FIAS 2022-2023 Fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

    14:15 \u2013 15:15 Knowledge, Narratives and Imaginaries related to Water Care<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

    Moderation<\/strong>: Caroline Lejars<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Deputy Director, JRU \u2018Water Management, Actors, Territories\u2019 (G-EAU), Agricultural Research Centre for International, Development (France)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n