Abstract/Sommario: Nel fascicolo monografico la gestione della risorsa acqua in Australia è affrontata nei vari articoli con un taglio antropologico. Studi sul campo esaminano in che modo le pressioni sociali, economiche e ambientali interagiscono in diversi contesti etnografici in Australia, Papua Nuova Guinea e Timor Est. In particolare: Jumping fish: engendering contestation and development on the waterway of the Aramia River in Papua New Guinea / Alison Dundon; Acquatic identities, fluid economies: ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Nel fascicolo monografico la gestione della risorsa acqua in Australia è affrontata nei vari articoli con un taglio antropologico. Studi sul campo esaminano in che modo le pressioni sociali, economiche e ambientali interagiscono in diversi contesti etnografici in Australia, Papua Nuova Guinea e Timor Est. In particolare: Jumping fish: engendering contestation and development on the waterway of the Aramia River in Papua New Guinea / Alison Dundon; Acquatic identities, fluid economies: Water affinities and authenticating narratives of belonging in East Timor Myth and ritual / Megan Jennaway; Wellspring of belonging: Water and Community Regeneration in Queensland / Veronica Strang; Kimberly Friction: complex attachments to water-places in Northern Australia / Sandy Toussaint ; The Green Frog and desalination: a Nyungar metaphor for the (mis-) management of water resources, Swan cost plain, Western Australia / Edward McDonald, Bryn Coldrick and Will Christensen; Watercourses and discourses: coalmining in the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales / Linda Connor, Nock Higginbotham, Sonia Freeman and Glenn Albrecht