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The Somatechnics of Water: Part 1

The Somatechnics of Water: Part 1 EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon Water constitutes an integral and assembling life force for bodies, technologies, and power. Historical and social understandings of rivers and water sources impact the materialisation and instrumentalisation of water (DasGupta 2020). In particular, the abstraction of water from its contextual assemblages can work to reinforce power relations. Adele Perry argues that ‘the forgetting of where water comes from … [is] enabled by the social relations of colonialism’ (as cited in Coyne et al. 2020). Amidst calls to think with volume (Steinberg and Peters 2015) and processually (see Hemming et al. 2019) regarding the flows and matter of water, this special issue attends to the somatechnics of water and its relational embedded-ness with knowledge, environments, and both human and non-human actors. What are the somatechnics that attend to the hydroimperial (Pritchard 2012) and hydrosocial territories (Boelens et al. 2016) of water? How can somatechnics be applied to the necropolitical deployment and manifestations of water (Lloréns and Stanchich 2019), the biopolitical management of water (Bakker 2012), and water’s entanglement with racial capitalism? Water’s relationship to weathering (Neimanis and Walker 2014) and environmentality (Agrawal 2005) vivify climate concerns and their differential impacts. Importantly, First Nations’ epistemic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Somatechnics Edinburgh University Press

The Somatechnics of Water: Part 1

Randell-Moon, Holly Eva Katherine
Somatechnics , Volume 13 (2): 4 – Aug 1, 2023
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon Water constitutes an integral and assembling life force for bodies, technologies, and power. Historical and social understandings of rivers and water sources impact the materialisation and instrumentalisation of water (DasGupta 2020). In particular, the abstraction of water from its contextual assemblages can work to reinforce power relations. Adele Perry argues that ‘the forgetting of where water comes from … [is] enabled by the social relations of colonialism’ (as cited in Coyne et al. 2020). Amidst calls to think with volume (Steinberg and Peters 2015) and processually (see Hemming et al. 2019) regarding the flows and matter of water, this special issue attends to the somatechnics of water and its relational embedded-ness with knowledge, environments, and both human and non-human actors. What are the somatechnics that attend to the hydroimperial (Pritchard 2012) and hydrosocial territories (Boelens et al. 2016) of water? How can somatechnics be applied to the necropolitical deployment and manifestations of water (Lloréns and Stanchich 2019), the biopolitical management of water (Bakker 2012), and water’s entanglement with racial capitalism? Water’s relationship to weathering (Neimanis and Walker 2014) and environmentality (Agrawal 2005) vivify climate concerns and their differential impacts. Importantly, First Nations’ epistemic

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