Flooding the Field; Plural Intersections

Seb O'Connor

Join us for the second session of the Flooding the Field series, where we’ll be exploring the possible intersectionality of flood research.

‘Flooding the field’ is a short series of talks being organised by a PhD research network called 'Floods; Living with water in the past, present and future'. The purpose of this series is to create a wider community of researchers with an interest in fluvial and coastal flooding. The focus of each of the sessions will be to discuss both tensions and synergies between disciplines with the aim of understanding how interdisciplinarity can help us to think differently about practicing flood research in the future. In the final, fourth week, we welcome participants to join us for an interactive mapping session that explores both the tensions and the synergies that will have surfaced over the series and beyond. It is our hope that this mapping exercise will highlight how we might collaborate as interdisciplinary flood researchers in the future. This session will host two talks on the theme of understanding how interdisciplinarity can shine a light on the plural intersections of flood research:1)	Amitangshu Acharya – University of Edinburgh'The river itself warns us’ - Decolonising flood knowledge in India. In the postcolonial world, ideas and understanding of how to manage water continues to be shaped by techno-bureaucratic approaches which draws its lineage from colonial engineering practice. Policy narratives continue to favour hard engineering approaches – dams and embankments – and top down systems of knowledge production – hydrological models and probabilistic weather forecasts – to mitigate floods and provide early warning.Building on theoretical approaches such as ‘cognitive apartheid’ (Ghosh, 2016) and ‘cognitive justice’ (Visvanathan, 1997), this presentation argues for decolonising flood knowledge in India. Based on field research on the floodplains of the transboundary Gandak River basin in Bihar, India, it showcases how communities have developed their own fine grained knowledge systems around flood prediction and how such understanding does not get accommodated within official frameworks. As climate change induced uncertainty looms large across flood affected waterscapes, I argue for an urgent move towards a deliberative, pluralistic and decentralised approach to flood management, one which proactively engages with subaltern knowledge systems. 2)	Juliet de Little	- University of SheffieldAbstract for Juliet's talk is in zine form, see below! After each talk there will be a chance for a Q &amp; A before a final open participatory discussion that will aim to draw out some of the tensions and overlaps in ideas that have been discussed. Event image credit: Jace Harrison Crowley, CG Artist, silico.studio

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