About the Seminar
The 2025 Seminar builds on the experience of events organized in 2023 and 2024 by the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network to stimulate the presentation of research results emphasising theoretical-conceptual and methodological aspects informing research in the Network’s activities. This Seminar is structured around Thematic Area 1 – X-disciplinarity in Research and Action. TA1 provides a suitable framework to encourage placing emphasis on theoretical-conceptual and methodological aspects that frame the empirical studies focused on the diverse themes covered by the Network’s 10 Thematic Areas. Among other, these themes include the socioecological impacts of water-related mega infrastructures and of agrarian and mining- extractivist activities; inequalities and injustices related to the politics and management of essential water-based public services in urban and rural areas; transboundary water issues; the interrelations between water and health; the formation and development of empirical and epistemic territorialities around the appropriation of water sources at different temporal and spatial scales; the artistic, cultural, and educational dimensions of water politics and management; water- related socioecological disasters; the contradictions and conflicts characterizing the interrelations between the control of waters and diverse productive activities or the systemic violences inflicted on human populations through processes of expropriation, displacement, criminalization and repression that are part and parcel of violations against essential rights connected with the access and distribution of water globally.
Objectives
In line with the Network’s Aims, Objectives, and Priorities, the Seminar aims at providing opportunities for students to engage with the Network’s international and inter-institutional environment to share their work, receive feedback and recognition and meeting researchers and students based in academic institutions in different countries who develop work relevant to the Political Ecology of Water. The goal is jointly producing an enabling atmosphere for the development of enriching intellectual, professional and personal relations.
The Seminar prioritizes presentations from doctoral students. The participants include students who are members of the Network as well as invited students. It is expected that their presentations will emphasise theoretical-conceptual and methodological aspects of their research. The sessions will benefit from the constructive participation of academics who will contribute with comments, suggestions, and prompting debates relevant to the subject.
Seminar Sessions
Organization
The Seminar is organized by the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network, in collaboration with academic institutions represented by Network members who form part of the Organizing Team. These organizations include:
Centre for Advanced Studies (CEA), Post-Graduate Programme in Sociology (PPGS), and Post-Graduate Programme in Urban Development (PPGMDU), Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) Recife, Brazil.
Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City, Mexico.
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Mexico City, Mexico.
Centre for Research in Geospatial Information Sciences (Centro Geo), National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (Conahcyt), Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico.
Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM), Mexico City, Mexico.
Division of Social Sciences and Humanities (DCSH), University of Guanajuato (UG), Campus Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Water Centre and Water and Soil Network, Higher University of San Simon (UMSS), Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Study Group on Regional Integration and Cooperation in Latin America (GEICRAL), Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, National University of Rosario (UNR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Urban Studies Programme, Institute of the Conurbated Area, National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Postgraduate Programme in Social Sciences (PPGCS), Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil.
Social Sciences Academic Unit, Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ), Zacatecas, Zacatecas Mexico.
For more details, please send an e-mail to WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network’s Secretariat.