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Veronica Strang

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Biography

Professor, Social Anthropology, University of Auckland / Professeure, Anthropologie sociale, University of Auckland

Veronica Strang is a leading international thinker in cultural anthropological perspectives on water, as most clearly evidenced in her large body of published work on water and culture, and her highly influential ethnography on privatization and the meanings of water (2004). Her scholarly accomplishments are complemented by her role as advisor to UNESCO's Programme on Water and Cultural Diversity. Additionally, Australia and New Zealand are the sites of some of the most innovative and interdisciplinary water scholarship to emerge in recent years, and Strang will be able to represesnt these compelling developments in a cross-cultural exchange with the mostly Canadian workshop participant body. Strang recently completed an ethnographic research project entitled Under Water, which examined the social and cultural factors involved in interactions with water resources in two major catchments in Australia.

Veronica Strang est une éminente penseuse internationale se spécialisant dans les perspectives anthropologiques culturelles sur l’eau, comme l’attestent ses nombreuses publications sur l’eau et la culture et sa très influente ethnographie sur la privatisation et les significations de l’eau (2004). À ses accomplissements universitaires s’ajoute son rôle de conseillère auprès des organisateurs du programme sur l’eau et la diversité culturelle de l’UNESCO. En outre, étant donné la position dont bénéficient l’Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande comme pays innovateurs et interdisciplinaires en termes de production de l’érudition sur l’eau ces dernières années, Strang sera en mesure de représenter ces avancées fascinantes dans un échange interculturel avec les participants à l’atelier, Canadiens pour la plupart. Strang a récemment mené à terme un projet de recherche ethnographique intitulé Under Water, qui s’intéresse aux facteurs culturels et sociaux concernés lors des interactions avec les ressources hydriques de deux importants bassins versants de l’Australie.

Please see Conceptual Relations: Water, Ideology and Theoretical Subversion.

Veuillez voir le résumé: Conceptual Relations: Water, Ideology and Theoretical Subversion (v.f.).

Publications
  • "Fluid Forms: owning water in Australia." in Ownership and Appropriation. Eds. V. Strang and M. Busse. ASA Monograph, Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers (in press)
  • Gardening the World: agency, identity, and the ownership of water. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Publishers, 2009.
  • "Water and Indigenous Religion: Aboriginal Australia" in The Idea of Water. Eds. T. Tvedt and T. Oestigaard. London: I.B Tauris, 2009.
  • "Water Sports: a Tug-of-War Over the River' in Tourism Power and Culture. Eds. J. Carrier and D. Macleod. Channel View Press, 2009.
  • Edited with S. Toussaint. Water Ways. Special Issue of Oceania. Vol 78. No 1. 2008.
  • 'Wellsprings of Belonging: Water and Community Regeneration in Queensland' in Water Ways. Special Issue of Oceania. Eds. V. Strang and S. Toussaint. Vol 78. No 1. 2008, pp 30-45.
  • "The Social Construction of Water." in Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. Eds. B. David and J. Thomas. World Archaeological Congress (WAC) Research Handbook Series. Walnut Creek CA: Left Coast Press, 2008. pp 123-130.
  • "Aqua Culture: the flow of cultural meanings in water." in Water: histories, cultures, ecologies. Eds. M. Leybourne and A. Gaynor. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press. 2006. pp 68-80.
  • The Meaning of Water. Oxford; New York: Berg, 2004.