Re-membering the Hydrocommons: Water, Care, and Deep Time Pedagogies from the Global South

Name: Re-membering the Hydrocommons: Water, Care, and Deep Time Pedagogies from the Global South
Start: 2026-06-11T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Bibliotek for Humaniora

Schedule

Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 04:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Bibliotek for Humaniora | Bergen, HO

This public lecture with Aaniyah Martin, South African scholar, artist, and environmental practitioner, explores water as a site of relational care, memory, and justice within the context of South Africa’s hydrocommons.
The lecture will be held at Babelstuen at Bibliotek for humaniora, Haakon Sheteligs plass 7, and everyone is welcome!
About the lecture:
"Drawing on feminist, posthumanist, and Indigenous-informed frameworks, I engage water not only as material substance but as a living archive that holds histories of exclusion, resilience, and belonging. Through practices of strandlooping (beach walking) and hydro-rugging (collective stitching), I trace how reparative pedagogies of care can emerge through embodied, research-creation methodologies.
Extending this work, I bring in recent collaborations that think with archaeology and deep time, situating human-water relations within longer temporal scales that exceed colonial histories and challenge anthropocentric narratives.
Together, these approaches invite a re-imagining of care that is attuned to both ancestral hauntings and future possibilities, foregrounding Black and Brown watery bodies and their re-connections to oceanic and coastal spaces. The presentation diffracts with how such practices can contribute to more just, situated, and relational engagements with water."
Read more here: https://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-groups/the-water-and-care-network/events/re-membering-the-hydrocommons-water-care-and-deep-time-pedagogies-from-the-global-south
The event has received funding from the Nordic Gender Fund.