NVAS Conference: Beyond the Blue. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Water in Africa

Thinking with water provides several new orientations for regional studies, including those focusing on the African continent and its global connections. Centering waterscapes surfaces connections, networks, and concerns that open up new thematic orientations and bring a wide range of urgent matters to the fore, ranging from climate change adaptation to endangered cultural narratives. The volatility of climate change is making the presence and absence of water increasingly problematic, leading to floods and droughts, increasing challenges of water management and its politics. Water ecologies are of crucial importance to human life, livelihoods and landscapes, making it critical to bring together different modes of engaging with new (and old) challenges. This calls for a fresh look at water in connection to Africa.

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