Place-pedagogies of water stress
This article explores the pedagogical affect of water in a place of water stress and illustrates its entanglement with dynamics of power and control. The current climate crisis is rendering already drought-prone regions ever drier, and it is often the already socially and economically disadvantaged...
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| author | Anna Wilson Gillian Black Leif Petersen Liezl Dick Sikhululekile Ncube Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa Amber Abrams Kirsty Carden Laurence Piper Jen Dickie Niall Hamilton-Smith Guy Lamb |
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| description | This article explores the pedagogical affect of water in a place of water stress and illustrates its entanglement with dynamics of power and control. The current climate crisis is rendering already drought-prone regions ever drier, and it is often the already socially and economically disadvantaged who experience the most immediate impacts. In this article, we describe the experiences of residents in one township in South Africa’s Cape Flats to explore how water literacies have developed and been reinforced by a prolonged period of water scarcity. By analysing assemblages of images and accompanying texts produced through a PhotoVoice process undertaken by co-researchers in this settlement, we show how water’s presence as an always imminent absence has profound pedagogical impact. We also explore how water manages to escape and flow outside of attempts to control and constrain it. Finally, we speculate on the implications for place-based water literacies and the pedagogies at work in other places of water stress. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7f404e1d49c34bee92dced11fe01dcec2025-01-27T06:00:11ZengBristol University PressGlobal Social Challenges Journal2752-33492025-01-0110.1332/27523349Y2025D000000034gscj.27523349Y2025D000000034Place-pedagogies of water stressAnna Wilson0Gillian Black1Leif Petersen2Liezl Dick3Sikhululekile Ncube4Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa5Amber Abrams6Kirsty Carden7Laurence Piper8Jen Dickie9Niall Hamilton-Smith10Guy Lamb11University of Glasgow, UKSustainable Livelihoods Foundation, South AfricaSustainable Livelihoods Foundation, South AfricaSustainable Livelihoods Foundation, South AfricaUniversity of Stirling, UKUniversity of Cape Town, South AfricaUniversity of Western Cape, South AfricaUniversity of Western Cape, South AfricaUniversity of Western Cape, South AfricaUniversity of Stirling, UKUniversity of Stirling, UKStellenbosch University, South AfricaThis article explores the pedagogical affect of water in a place of water stress and illustrates its entanglement with dynamics of power and control. The current climate crisis is rendering already drought-prone regions ever drier, and it is often the already socially and economically disadvantaged who experience the most immediate impacts. In this article, we describe the experiences of residents in one township in South Africa’s Cape Flats to explore how water literacies have developed and been reinforced by a prolonged period of water scarcity. By analysing assemblages of images and accompanying texts produced through a PhotoVoice process undertaken by co-researchers in this settlement, we show how water’s presence as an always imminent absence has profound pedagogical impact. We also explore how water manages to escape and flow outside of attempts to control and constrain it. Finally, we speculate on the implications for place-based water literacies and the pedagogies at work in other places of water stress.https://doi.org/10.1332/27523349Y2025D000000034water literaciespedagogies of placeassemblage analysisdifference and repetitionlines of articulation and flight |
| spellingShingle | Anna Wilson Gillian Black Leif Petersen Liezl Dick Sikhululekile Ncube Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa Amber Abrams Kirsty Carden Laurence Piper Jen Dickie Niall Hamilton-Smith Guy Lamb Place-pedagogies of water stress Global Social Challenges Journal water literacies pedagogies of place assemblage analysis difference and repetition lines of articulation and flight |
| title | Place-pedagogies of water stress |
| title_full | Place-pedagogies of water stress |
| title_fullStr | Place-pedagogies of water stress |
| title_full_unstemmed | Place-pedagogies of water stress |
| title_short | Place-pedagogies of water stress |
| title_sort | place pedagogies of water stress |
| topic | water literacies pedagogies of place assemblage analysis difference and repetition lines of articulation and flight |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1332/27523349Y2025D000000034 |
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