Oceania

The three themes of materialities, temporalities and imaginaries help us understand water futures in Australia. They flow throughout this special issue which we will continue to explore and dive into over the coming weeks. Now available here: buff.ly/3HBUP4J

Ryan Schram reviews ‘Anarchy and the Art of Listening’, a book suitable for linguistic anthropologists and scholars of Melanesian societies, and anyone interested in possibilities for egalitarian politics beyond the limits of the liberal imagination: buff.ly/4bW08J8

‘Moro and the Weather Coast’ underscores the importance of understanding the Moro Movement in relation to the negligence exhibited by government of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and the churches. Read Jaap Timmer’s review here: buff.ly/3ytM775

‘Sensing Disaster’ is an ethnographic exploration of traditional environmental knowledge, disaster management and indigenous attachment to place. It is grounded in fieldwork on Simbo (Solomon Islands) immediately after the 2007 tsunami. More here: buff.ly/3WT7yZB

Water is increasingly at the centre of scientific and public debates about climate change. Sally Babidge reviews this volume, that at its core asks: how can we shift our understanding and realign what water means to us? More here: buff.ly/4byRtNb

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The many ways the Chinese have been defined as actors in PNG’s history and politics are analysed against the backdrop of a rapidly changing global order. Learn more in our latest title 'The Chinese in Papua New Guinea'. Available now doi.org/10.22459/CPNG.…

✨ NEW! #OpenAccess articles in the latest issue of @OceaniaJournal include an #ethnography by Alana Brekelmans and Richard J. Martin that explores the notion of legacy in Outback Queensland through pastoral work and storytelling. More here ⤵️ buff.ly/43Uy7yO

Fiona McCormack highlights the radical potential of kinship as a cross‐cutting theme in Australia’s water futures, to collectively reveal how kin relatedness works to disrupt the categorical framing of ‘modern water’ as an extractive resource: buff.ly/3WMwaD9

Three themes inform this Special Issue on Water Future in Australia: materialities, imaginaries and temporalities. Each animates a diverse array of ethnographic inquiry into transformative water futures. Read the afterword here: buff.ly/3WMwaD9

This articles focusses on the Mardoowarra (Fitzroy River) in Western Australia and Aboriginal people’s deep and enduring cultural, environmental and emotional interconnections and responsibilities with such a major water source: buff.ly/4bh6DGH

‘What questions are ethnographers asking about water in Australia?’ This article presents provocation as heuristic tool and inquires into water-based questions relating to ethnographers, ethnography and Australian Indigenous people: buff.ly/4bh6DGH

This article considers how synbio approaches to water may engage with the hydro-history and fluid future of Torres Strait Islander identities, and cross-cultural socio-environmental responsibilities. More buff.ly/4bhsn5m

How is a changing climate and rising sea levels impacting identities in the Torres Strait and relationships in the region? Read the full article for free with Open Access: buff.ly/4bhsn5m

How might Torres Strait Islanders’ understandings contribute to (synbio) scientific concepts of islands as contained, ‘watertight’ field sites? Read more by Kirsty Wissing and Torres Webb in our Special Issue on Water Futures in Australia: buff.ly/4bhsn5m

Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris relates fog-based artists’ pieces to ‘Occult Meteorology’ and ‘Weather as Medium’ to propose misting as a hydro-artistic method in the Hydrocene. Read the full article free with Open Access here: buff.ly/4bdVBBY

Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris’s essay is a provocation that shares the potential significance of ‘misting’ as a hydro-artistic method of reorientation from within fog, where fog becomes a portal towards embodied encounters in art practices. More: buff.ly/4bdVBBY

Ute Eickelkamp introduces perspectives on water and time that Australian Indigenous thinkers have shared during her ethnographic research: buff.ly/3QCgfTY

Ute Eickelkamp proposes that thinking with water ethically and recognizing its temporal diversity opens up perspectives on the deindustrialisation of rivers and other bodies of water: buff.ly/3QCgfTY

Ute Eickelkamp explores the temporality of waterways through a thought experiment in the context of restorative art interventions. Read the article free with Open Access here: buff.ly/3QCgfTY