7th International Forum on Global South Studies Water

Opening of the Forum:

Susanne Goumegou (Universität Tübingen)
Sebastian Thies (RTG Figurations of the Precarious in the Global South

Jacky Kosgei (Universität Tübingen)
Esteban Morera Aparicio (Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies)
Louis Nana (Universität Tübingen)

Opening Panel: Figurations of Water in Guaraní and Maya Mythology

Adalberto Müller (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) and Kristell Pech-Oxte (University of Tübingen, Germany)

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1. Indigenous Ecologies of Water: Mathie Pani in Grassroots Odisha, India (Pranab Kumar Mandal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
2. Shaping the Indigenous Knowledge of Water: An Ethnographic Inquiry among Chepang Communities in Nepal (Jhabindra Bhandari, Tribhuvan University, Nepal)
3. Shifting Tides: Cyclone Idai, Njuzu and Mhondoro Cosmopolitics, and the Confluence of Relational Ontologies in Zimbabwe's Waterlore (Charles Murata, University of Tübingen, Germany)
4. Knowledge systems and water survival practices in the Seereer community (Birane Sene, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
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1. O fim do mundo, o fim da “natureza”: viver nas ruínas em Ana Paula Maia (Natália Lima Ribeiro, University of Hamburg, Germany)
2. Praias fora do mundo (Nathália Cioffi de Lima, University of Coimbra, Portugal)
3. Balada da Traição do Mar: simbologia, imaginário e identidade marítima nas canções do Festival RTP da Canção (Gil Duarte Ribeiro, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
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1. Hydrocolonialism, Extractivism, and Biopolitics in Helon Habila's Oil on Water and Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were (Lassana Kanté, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
2. Hydropolitics and Self-Provisioning in Postcolonial Côte d'Ivoire: SODECI, Water Distribution, and Urban Water Scarcity (Ahmadou Siendou Konaté, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire)
3. Undamming the River: Confronting the Absence of Dam Removal in the Global South (Monti Aguirre, International Rivers)
4. Amazonia, A World of Water: Rethinking rivers and infrastructure in the early twentieth century (Javier Uriarte, Stony Brook University, United States)
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1. Imaginarios anfibios y organización comunitaria en Tierra mojada de Manuel Zapata Olivella (Nicolás Sepúlveda Perdomo, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany)
2. Putting Water in Dialogue with Air in Mackintosh's The Water Cure (Isabel María Osuna Montilla, University of Tübingen, Germany)
3. Water between Cosmos and Subsoil: Bodily Invasion and Extractivism in Giovanna Rivero's Alma oscura del alba (Annabelle Katharina Jerger, University of Tübingen, Germany)
4. Underwater bestiary: Paula Sampaio's photo essay of the Tucuruí Dam's lake (Roberto Robalinho, Centro Técnico do Audiovisual (CTAv), Brazil)
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1. Desbordar las formas: multilingüismo, multimodalidad y multigenericidad en las nuevas antologías sobre el agua en Abya Yala (Melisa Stocco, CONICET; CELLPA-UNP, Argentina)
2. Sujeto de lucha, agencia y respeto: el agua en la poesía mapuche contemporánea (Viviana Ayilef, CELLPA-UNP, Puel Mapu/Argentina)
3. Escuchar el cauce o desaparecer: cartografía sonora como práctica de cuidado en torno al río Chubut (Paulo Paniagua, Universidad Nacional del Arte, Argentina)
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Beatrice Bonami (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Francielle Vargas(Universidad de Chile); Anne Burkhardt (University of Tübingen, Germany)

ICGSS Working Group on “AI and Global Justice”
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1. Water, Memory and Slavery in the Autobiographical Narrative (Ahou Alphonsine N'Guessan, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire)
2. What Water Cannot Keep: Poetic Form and the Mediterranean as Liquid Archive in A. E. Stallings's “Refugee Fugue” (Maria Nefeli Giannia, University of Tübingen, Germany)
3. Africas in the Mediterranean: cinema of Africa's trans-continental illegal migration (Addamms Mututa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
4. The Drowned Archive: Cinema, Caste and the Non-Blue Waters of Kuttanad (Arun Kumar N. A, English and Foreign Languages University, India)
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1. Buddhist sacred geographies in the Himalayan region: connecting Khecheopalri Lake in West Sikkim and Rewalsar Lake in Himachal Pradesh (Debraj Chhetri, University of North Bengal, India)
2. Religious Responses to Water Scarcity on the Canary Islands (Laura Dierksmeier, University of Tübingen, Germany)
3. Saint waters: Other-than-human landscapes in the Reinado of Chapada do Norte (Iasmyn Lídia Gonçalves, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
4. Cosmologias indígenas e paisagens aquáticas em Mar Paraguayo de Wilson Bueno (Ana Clara Demier Gonçalves Silva, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)

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Making Peace with Nature. Many Methods, Many Worlds

Wendy He, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, and Rachel Macreadie

Co-organised with the Global Encounters platform, University of Tübingen, Germany

Location: 
College of Fellows
Villa Köstlin, Rümelinstr. 27
72070 Tübingen
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1. Weather engineering by sea water evaporation in arid depressions (Reinhold F. Fink, University of Tübingen; Majda Sekkal-Rahal, University of Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria; Heidi Megerle, Hochschule für Forstwirtschaft Rottenburg)
2. The Water We Owe: Rethinking Justice in the Anthropocene (Janflor Mc.Louie S. Ullero and John Christopher V. Dela Cruz, National University, Philippines)
3. Imaging Water: Listening as Method Across Deep and Urgent Times in the Cradle of Humankind (Meghan Judge, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
4. Governing Water, Governing Knowledge: Indigenous Epistemologies and the Politics of Sanitation in India (Himanshu Khanna and Dewang Mishra, University of Delhi, India)
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Ludovica Tozzi (Sapienza University of Rome)

Souraja Chakraborty (University of Tübingen), 

Mukul Menon(University of Tübingen) 

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Guardianes del Río Colorado. Reflexiones sobre las luchas por el agua en territorios fronterizados

Escuelita de Comunicación Popular Grafito Activo, Mexicali, Mexico
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1. Poetics of Rivers: The Ganga, Yamuna, and Human–Nonhuman Worlds in Early Modern South Asia (Nagwant Singh, University of Delhi, India)
2. From Gomukh to Gangasagar: Mapping Riverine Entanglements in Songs of the River (Vanya Jaiswal, independent research scholar, India)
3. Hydrohermeneutics: Amazonian Indigenous Water Cultures in Poetry and Art (Patrícia Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal)
4. Thinking through Water: The Orinoco, Extractivism, and Coloniality in Chris Gude's Morichales (Laura Meltke, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany)
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Juliana Marín Taborda (moderator); Carlos Alberto Palacio Tobón; Natalia Quiceno Toro; Ana María Vallejo de la Ossa; Flora Rodríguez; Alex Rufino (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia; Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France; Semillas Ticunas)
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Ana Luisa Linan Aguilar (University of Tübingen, Germany)
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1. El río Tijuana y Cartolandia: un análisis sobre cambio urbano a mediados del siglo XX y la consecuente construcción colectiva de memoria (Pilar Adriana Rey Hernández, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico)
2. Lo que no existe: anámnesis del agua en el paisaje socioterritorial (Lourdes Sofía Mendoza Bohne, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico)
3. Hidrocolonialismo en la cuenca del río Colorado y Memorias del Agua: herramientas para la construcción de un pensamiento rebelde en la frontera México-Estados Unidos (Blanca Nathalia Carrillo Ortiz, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California; Jessica Sevilla, Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado; Malena Manríquez, Comunidades Eclesiales de Base-Mexicali; Gabriela González Ortuño, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
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1. Kule: Sinking as Condition and Metaphor (Ryan Poinasamy, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
2. Liquid Violence: The Effluent and Refusal in Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were (2021) (Buhle Dlodlo, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
3. The Politics and Poetics of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project in Jeremiah Mosese's This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection (2019) (Luck Makuyana, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
4. The Islands: Hydropolitics of the Lesotho Highlands Project (Nina Barnett, University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

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1. Hydro-Literacy and Moving Beyond Victims: Women's Water Knowledge and Ecofeminist Resistance in Chioma Okereke's Water Baby (2024) and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's A Girl Is a Body of Water (2020) (Oulimata Diop, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
2. Where Women Linger: The Water Source as Third Space in Southern African Literature (Connie Joseph, University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
3. Writing the decline of the aquatic ecosystem in A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park: A Gynocentric Approach (Amara Diabaté, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire)
4. Sea as Mother (Kadalamma): Religion, Gender, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge among Kerala's Traditional Fisherfolk (Asya Dilsha M.P, University of Tübingen, Germany)

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Jonas Carvalho e Silva and Cristiane Batista Salgado (coordinators) and eleven further contributors (Universidade Federal do Pará; Federal Institute of Brasília; TU Dortmund, Germany; Integrated College of the Amazon; University of Tübingen, Germany; University of Illinois Springfield, United States)
 

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1. Water, Power, and Hydro-Diplomacy: Heterarchical Resource Governance in the Middle Senegal Valley (Alioune Deme, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
2. The Geopolitics of Water: Between Governing Thirst and Water Control in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin (Moussa Sy, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
3. The South Atlantic as a Relational Ocean: Trade, Maritime Insecurity and South-South Cooperation in the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic (ZOPACAS) (Vitor Piagetti Aimi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

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Eva Nossem (Saarland University, Germany)

Astrid M. Fellner (Saarland University, Germany) 

Tobias Schank (Saarland University, Germany)

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1. Echoes on Water: Refiguring Cycles of Liquid Violence in Selected Visual Narratives (Buhle Dlodlo, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
2. Some Kinds of Floods: Hydro-modernity and Indigenous Hydro-cosmologies in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift (2019) (Luck Makuyana, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
3. Thinking with Water: Hydro-Colonialism and More-Than-Human Agency in Khadija Abdalla Bajaber's The House of Rust (Dianaross Rono)
4. Conscious Drowning: Water, Consciousness, and the Limits of Agency in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (2008) (Alexandra Wiorek)
 

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1. De l'inégalité de genre et de l'autonomisation des femmes dans l'économie bleue au Sénégal : une approche écoféministe et stiwaniste (Saliou Dione, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
2. Vivre avec l'eau en banlieue dakaroise : entre précarité hydrique, solidarités communautaires et quête de bien-être (Khadim Dieng, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
 

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1. Les images de l'eau dans le roman africain postcolonial : entre crime et châtiment (Stéphane Amougou Ndi, Université de Yaoundé 1, Cameroun)
2. Appellations endogènes et écosymbolicité de l'eau dans les proverbes du Nord-Cameroun (Jean Bognare, Université de Maroua, Cameroun)
3. Le rapport des Dida de la région du Lôh Djiboua aux eaux du Boubo, une tradition du « possibilisme » à valeur antispéciste (Louis Obou, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire)

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Ben Spatz; María Florencia Iannuzzi Dolmann; Vanessa Lee; Neli Dobreva (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, France; Universitat de Girona, Spain; Université Côte d'Azur, France; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)

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Ailin Calderon; Alberto Jori; Aline Bernardo da Silva; Yamile Villamil Rojas (Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France; University of Tübingen, Germany; University of Ferrara, Italy; Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)

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1. A Grande Enchente e a origem dos brancos em A queda do céu (Izabela Leal, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil)
2. O rio-mulher e a mulher como rio: uma leitura ecocrítica ancestral do corpo-território feminino em O som do rugido da onça (2021) (Thaynara Souza Batista, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil)
3. Água, memória e pertença: imaginários hídricos na literatura oral tradicional portuguesa (Natália Albino Pires, Polytechnic University of Coimbra; Vanessa Henriques Antunes, Centre for Historical Studies of Lourinhã, Portugal)

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1. Pensar desde el agua: imaginarios hidrológicos y epistemologías del Sur en Habana Underguater de Erick J. Mota (Aída Chacón Castellanos, SECIHTI-IIFL, Mexico)
2. Pensar con el agua desde lo audiovisual: perspectivas relacionales en el cine mapuche (Christina Enders, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany)
3. Las aguas del acuífero guaraní en la mirada jesuita: entre el control económico y la fascinación (María José Sabo, IDH-CONICET; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)

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1. The archive of drying streams: listening to water, voice and scarcity in Kericho's semi-arid margins (Carolyne Cherotich Rono, University of Kabianga, Kenya)
2. Beyond Infrastructure: Water, Community Agency and Decolonial Governance in Rural Senegal (Youssouf Diallo, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
3. Water Stress in a Water-Rich Country? Agroforestry Systems as a Solution Strategy? (Heidi Elisabeth Megerle and Jannis Bahnmüller, Hochschule für Forstwirtschaft Rottenburg, Germany)
4. The Adivasi versus Coca-Cola. A local environmental conflict and its global resonance (Bernd-Stefan Grewe, University of Tübingen, Germany)

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