TY - JOUR
TI - Languages of Water – Dialogue
AU - Owczarska, Małgorzata
AU - Wagner, Iwona
TI - Languages of Water – Dialogue
AB - 
	The text is an experimental sketch based on a dialogue between an ecohydrologist and an anthropologist of culture. The authors will subject a critical, interdisciplinary reflection to various water languages used colloquially or in selected professional discourses. They will ask themselves what water is in different contexts, how it is spoken of, how it is thought of, how it is treated and what role water related languages play in times of climate crisis. After all, it is reasonable to ask whether water is a resource, chemical compound, life, service provider, stakeholder, law, or sewage. Based on examples in contemporary discussion on water and the associated blue-green infrastructure the authors distinguish several trends in different ways of talking about water: economic, medical, defensive, scientific and communitarian. They will reflect on the mechanisms comparable to colonial ones that determine the domination of some and the infantilization or cancelation of others, especially the communitarian ones. This dialogue will reveal an “intercellular” permeability of water definitions and how easily water can assume some meaning to escape it and create a series of new ones.
VL - 2021
IS - Issue 2 (48) Błękitna humanistyka
PY - 2021
SN - 1895-975X
C1 - 2084-3860
SP - 416
EP - 430
DO - 10.4467/20843860PK.21.027.14084
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/jezyki-wody-dialog
KW - water languages
KW - water
KW - blue-green infrastructure
KW - blue humanities
KW - ecohydrology