Water as “Time-Substance”: The Hydrosocialities of Climate Change in Nepal

Abstract

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Timescapes of Himalayan hydropower: Promises, project life cycles, and precarities

“…Critically, hydropower projects and the infrastructures they require are subject to seasonal hydrologies, meteorological rhythms, geological processes, and other nonhuman temporalities that quite literally shape the Himalayas. As Clark et al (2017) have argued, water is a "time-substance" vested with multiple possibilities and agencies.…”

Qualitative methods II: On the presentation of ‘geographical ethnography’

“…The average was around an impressive two years (though some were cagey with their readers about whether this actually represented the start and end of a series of trips). Examples include Grant's (2018) work involving seventeen months within a Tibetan enclave in China, Clark et al (2017) who spent two years exploring how Nepali villagers live with water, Naylor's (2018) three-year study of Mexican coffee cooperatives and 'fair-trade' products, and Cook's (2018) fifteen months with Jordanian olive oil producers. Some were seemingly there for much longer than that as part of a commitment to an on-going relationship with their chosen field site (for example, Karrar and Mostowlansky, 2018).…”

Children and young people living through the monsoon: watery entanglements and fluid inequalities

“…Watery geographies are increasingly on the academic agenda (Gibbs 2014;Clark et al 2017;Djohari, Brown and Stolk 2017); the scale and scope of watery relations extend from the oceans, to microbes, to bodies, industries and much more. Our human bodies are enveloped by watery substances, from the water that we drink, that passes through our bodies, to the puddles that we run through, the rain and dew that falls on our skin and the clouds that we monitor.…”

“…In their work on unpacking the relations between water and society, Krause and Strang (2016, 633) argue that the hydrological and the social should be analysed together, rather than 'treating water as an object of social and cultural production.' Recently, Clark et al (2017) called for a hydrosocial analysis of water as a 'timesubstance' to trace human-water relations. It is the relationality of water, or rather, watery relations and entanglements that we seek to unpack in this paper through the lens of the monsoon.…”