Visualizing urban inequalities: The ethics of videography and documentary filmmaking in water research

Rusca, Maria

doi:10.1002/wat2.1292

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“…In the periphery of Maputo and Lilongwe, for instance, water is only supplied at night. Timing here matters perhaps even more than distance in shaping women's experiences of fear and violence with which water access becomes associated [92,93]. Concurrently, time of storage and discontinuity of flow fundamentally change the quality of water and, in turn, increase risks of its contamination [66,94].…”

Section: Complementarity: Space-time In the Water And Society Interplaymentioning

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Interdisciplinary Critical Geographies of Water: Capturing the Mutual Shaping of Society and Hydrological Flows

Rusca

Baldassarre

2019

Water

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In light of recent calls for an increased commitment to interdisciplinary endeavors, this paper reflects on the implications of a critical geography of water that crosses social and natural sciences. Questions on how to best research the relationship between water and society have been raised both in the field of critical geographies of water and sociohydrology. Yet, there has been little crossover between these disciplinary perspectives. This, we argue, may be partly explained by the fact that interdisciplinary research is both advocated and antagonized. On the one hand, interdisciplinarity is argued to deliver more in terms of effectively informing policy processes and developing theoretical perspectives that can reform and regenerate knowledge. On the other hand, natural and social sciences are often presented as ontologically, epistemologically, and methodologically incompatible. Drawing on our own research experience and expertise, this paper focuses on the multiple ways in which critical geographies of water and sociohydrology are convergent, compatible, and complementary. We reflect on the existing theoretical instruments to engage in interdisciplinary research and question some of the assumptions on the methodological and epistemological incompatibility between natural and social sciences. We then propose that an interdisciplinary resource geography can further understandings of how power and the non-human co-constitute the social world and hydrological flows and advance conceptualizations of water as socionatures.

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Section: Complementarity: Space-time In the Water And Society Interplaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Interdisciplinary Critical Geographies of Water: Capturing the Mutual Shaping of Society and Hydrological Flows

Rusca

Baldassarre

2019

Water

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“…Videos can capture nuances that are overlooked in texts, e.g. body posture, tone, sounds, interactions, and embodied movements in the specific geographical and cultural contexts that the film portrays (Rusca, 2018). In this sense, in agreement with Fors' (2015) concept of digital visuality, the digital visuality enabled by a videographic representation on a Story Map would be fundamentally multisensory and embodied.…”

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The visualities of digital story mapping: teaching the ‘messiness’ of qualitative methods through story mapping technologies

Dickinson

Telford

2020

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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Increasing attention is being given to how educators might incorporate digital story-mapping into undergraduate geography teaching and assessment, with a particular focus evident on the quantitative and GIS-based values of these technologies. However, we argue that the visual elements of digital story-mapping technologies also raise questions about how students understand, organise and represent the experiences of doing qualitative research. Utilising the concept of 'digital visuality' (Fors, 2015), we argue that the broader sociopolitical and cultural contexts that inform qualitative methods teaching (particularly epistemological debates about narrating embodied, 'messy' research encounters) shape how students represent qualitative research in a visual form. Using empirical vignettes derived from a ArcGIS Story Map assessment at a UK tertiary institution, this paper frames story-mapping technologies as a more-than-visual form of research representation. We argue that the decisions faced by students about how to present ('can I show ethics in a picture?'), order ('I can't show that video here'), and reflect on methodological rigour ('Is it still valid data if I type-up my journal?'), stimulates important learning opportunities. Subsequently, the article is not just intended to 'make-a-case' for such technology, but also to raise important questions about the digital visualities of qualitative research representation for geographical education.

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“…As an example, water practices that are carried out in the private space of the home often concern private or even stigmatized activities such as bathing (Kadibadiba et al, 2018) or managing menstrual waste (Alda‐Vidal & Browne, 2021). By contrast, those performed in public spaces, such as negotiating water prices at the kiosk or redirecting water from the network to the homes are subject to different norms and meanings (Rusca, 2018; Velzeboer et al, 2018).…”

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Unpacking everyday urbanism: Practices and the making of (un)even urban waterscapes

Rusca

Cleaver

2022

WIREs Water

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Inequalities in conditions of access to water are emblematic of contemporary urban life and have long been at the center of urban scholarship. This paper considers the theoretical and empirical potential of a focus on the everyday as a contribution to critical urban water studies. Drawing on research in Political Ecology and Critical Institutionalism, we focus on the intersection of everyday urbanism and water to reflect on whether such perspectives can further understandings of socio-natural inequalities and "real" governance challenges in the urban waterscape. We suggest that a focus on the everyday brings attention to the hybrid arrangements that constitute urban waterscapes and offers new insights to the polycentric nature of water governance, agency, and everyday urban struggles. However, we also outline limitations of these studies in unpacking the concept of the everyday and in capturing the practices through which everyday life is constituted. We explore the potential of an engagement with Practice Theory as a sensitizing lens for developing grounded understandings of everyday life, its constituent practices, and how these change over time. Concurrently, we argue that Practice Theory could be strengthened by drawing on critical approaches that explain everyday urban governance through:(1) the linking of practices to broader patterns of inequality; (2) the multiple social identities of practitioners and the variability in their exercise of agency; (3) the role of institutions as crucial mediating mechanisms and the processes through which practices become enduring institutional arrangements. We, thus, conclude that these approaches are complementary rather than competing.

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Visualizing urban inequalities: The ethics of videography and documentary filmmaking in water research

Cited by 9 publications

References 48 publications

Interdisciplinary Critical Geographies of Water: Capturing the Mutual Shaping of Society and Hydrological Flows

Interdisciplinary Critical Geographies of Water: Capturing the Mutual Shaping of Society and Hydrological Flows

The visualities of digital story mapping: teaching the ‘messiness’ of qualitative methods through story mapping technologies

Unpacking everyday urbanism: Practices and the making of (un)even urban waterscapes

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