Where Waters Meet: Empirical philosophy amidst more than human collectives. This project aims to position water-places, with their attendant people and non-humans, as central actors in Australian coll

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Where Waters Meet: Empirical philosophy amidst more than human collectives. This project aims to position water-places, with their attendant people and non-humans, as central actors in Australian collective life. We use a multidisciplinary approach to study how these places are managed, cared for, lived-with, known and changed. The project will generate new knowledge, mapping differences in different contexts (cultural, historical, political), across scales (creek, river, river basin), and attending to epistemic devices (stories, maps, algorithms, images). Expected outcomes include generative, collectively enacted, institutionally stabilised understandings of Australian water-places benefitting those who care for them incl. traditional owners, policy makers, scientists, environmentalists, and recreational users. . Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4410 - Sociology. Lead: Dr Michaela Spencer