[Commlist] CfP - Reframing Water and Climate Resilience

Call for Papers

Reframing Water and Climate Resilience - online symposium 27.5.2022

Deadline: 15.4.2022

Water is the medium through which we experience many of the impacts of 
climate change: in droughts or floods, in melting glaciers, rising sea 
levels and more. Accordingly, visualisations of water or its absence 
have been at the core of climate change media discourse for decades and 
have shaped popular perceptions of this crisis. In recent years, 'water 
resilience’ has increasingly been embraced as a tool for addressing the 
impacts of climate change and other ongoing stressors; not only as a 
tool for adaptation, but also as a tool for mitigation that addresses 
the water-energy nexus and greenhouse gas emissions from water 
infrastructure. However, water resilience scholarship is still primarily 
focussed on the physical, technological and managerial aspects of the 
climate crisis, while issues of social justice, power and politics are 
at the margins of the debate. As such, the transformative potential of 
climate and water resilient futures goes unrecognised.

This symposium aims to bring together the overlapping conversations 
around resilience, climate, water, communication and politics in order 
to advance social justice and reduce climate-induced water 
vulnerability. This one-day event will follow in the footsteps of the 
2008 STEPS Centre symposium, Re-Framing Resilience, which opened the 
door for critical resilience research which addresses aspects of power, 
politics and justice in relation to resilience.

With this call for contributions, we hope to find scholars, studies and 
practice-based knowledge which acknowledge that building climate/water 
resilience is a profoundly socio-political challenge. Moreover, we are 
looking for interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives on the diverse 
framing, narratives, imaginations and discourses of resilience promoted 
by local and global networks of actors.

Throughout our one-day symposium we will engage with the following 
questions: What can we learn from over a decade of critical resilience 
research that can help us to confront the water and climate challenges 
which lie ahead? How can we put social justice at the core of climate 
and water resilience practice? How can water and climate resilience be 
imagined, communicated, represented and visualised differently?

We wish to bring together papers and presentations on:

·The role of media, public and stakeholder engagement in resilience practice

·Critical approaches to water and climate resilience

·Socio-political pathways to resilience

·Climate mitigation through the water system

·Risk communication and public advocacy

·Climate and water advocacy and protest

·Water development projects at local, national or international levels

·Politicisation of the hydro-social

·Different approaches for resilience practice

·The Blue New Deal

We are exploring possibilities for publishing the outputs of this 
symposium as a special issue.

*_Keynote speakers:_*

Prof. Joanne Garde-Hansen 
<https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/garde-hansen/> (University 
of Warwick), author of /Media and Water: Communication, Culture and 
Perception/

Dr Filippo Menga 
<https://didattica-rubrica.unibg.it/ugov/person/113687> (University of 
Bergamo), author of /Water and Power in Central Asia/ and co-editor of 
/Water, Technology and the Nation State/

The symposium is organised by the University of Reading, the Institute 
of Development Studies, and the Science and Environment Communication 
Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association.

Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be sent to 
(s.kassirer /at/ ids.ac.uk) <mailto:(s.kassirer /at/ ids.ac.uk)> by 15.4.2022


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