Networking the diversity of interdisciplinary water research across the natural and social sciences, arts and humanities and with civil society

Waters – due to their multiple material, political and affective ontologies – defy both disciplinary
analyses and exclusive academic engagements. This is why interdisciplinary projects proliferate
in water research. Yet, interdisciplinary logics and modes of engagement differ, ranging from
subordinating one discipline to another, over attempts to integrate, to more agonistic
relationships that maintain significant differences. Interdisciplinarities – one might say – are as
fluid as waters themselves.
With the Fluid Interdisciplinarities symposium, we bring the diversity of water research together
to unpack projects and perspectives with respect to their underlying modes and logics,
comparing and contrasting how projects intervene in the world and with what effects. We
showcase collaborations across the natural and social sciences, as well as those from the arts
and humanities and with civil society. The aim is to consolidate and further develop an
international network of interdisciplinary water scholars and practitioners who engage reflexively
with their own research practices.