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17. A water culture perspective for food security
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The changing climate is disrupting freshwater infrastructures and this affects food security. Dominant technocratic systems of knowledge and practice supporting water infrastructures are being undermined by rapid changes, which introduce new uncertainties and contest old securities. Novel ways of mobilising knowledge and practice for water infrastructures are needed that readmit communities’ diverse cultural interactions with water and promote adaptive decision-making. The paper introduces the project ‘Changing Water Cultures’ (CANALS) claiming: (1) that current understandings of water, climate and infrastructures struggle to address emerging uncertainties due to climate change; (2) that a proper regard for water cultures is needed to overcome these obstacles; particularly by (3) extending the ‘peer communities’ of diverse knowledge-holders. The paper’s water culture perspective understands cultures as both practices and systems of symbols and meanings. It recognises the hybrid character of water, which exists independently of humans and at the same time is culturally enacted through human practices. From this perspective, the paper looks beyond infrastructures physical manifestation to include the social practices connecting people and objects in the world in socio-material relations. A water-cultural perspective thus better captures the complex processes around water infrastructures and food in the context of challenges posed by climate change. The paper first argues for a novel way of analysing water infrastructures and second explains its relevance for understanding food security in a changing climate.