Transboundary Water Governance: New Sights and Developments
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water governance; transboundary environmental management; water security; political geography; environmental justice
Interests: indigenous knowledge systems; indigenous fishers knowledge; participatory research mapping; cultural geography; indigenous ecosystems management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In academic and professional literature on transboundary water governance, physical borders are often treated apolitically and ahistorically, discounting colonialism, while the borderland is often treated as fixed and unchangeable. The narratives that we seek in this Special Issue aim to re-write this narrative by highlighting the decolonizing process, both in legal structures (see Borrows and Craft) and in governance structures (Norman). In addition, greater attention on relationships with water, rather than rights to access water, is an important cultural shift that is occurring both in practice and in the academic literature. Increased attention to water as sacred, rather than water as a resource, brings depth to the conversation. Furthermore, Indigenous scholars such as Daigle, Couthard, Borrows, Craft, Vaughon, and Walsey are helping to reframe conversations both in legal scholarship and water governance scholarship, which has important implications for transboundary water governance literature.
In this Special Issue, we will critically examine how colonial interpretations of landscapes and waterways, and associated creation of laws and policies, continue to impact and influence transboundary water governance. In these edges of nation-state spaces, transboundary water regimes have been created with the foundation of colonial law. To reclaim these waterways, and in the spirit of truth and reconciliation processes that are occurring throughout North America and across the globe, we share stories of Indigenous resilience at the borderland. We show how Indigenous-led movements have pushed back and reclaimed waterways and have provided innovative governance models for water that flow across, though, and under multiple jurisdictional spaces. This Issue will highlight several Indigenous water movements across the North American borderland, as well as stories from across the globe.
Studies that employ Indigenous Research Methodologies are specifically encouraged to submit an article for this Special Issue.
Dr. Emma S. Norman
Dr. Victoria Walsey-Honanie
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- transboundary
- water governance
- indigenous water law
- decolonization
- water as sacred
- resilience
- critical geography
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