Amphibious Anthropologies

Alejandro Camargo is assistant professor of environmental and Caribbean studies at the Universidad del Norte in Colombia. He is coeditor of Water Urbanization in Colombia. Luisa Cortesi is assistant professor of water, disasters, and environmental justice at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University. She is coeditor of Split Waters: The Idea of Water Conflicts. Franz Krause is professor of environmental anthropology and codirector of Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities at the University of Cologne. He is coeditor of Delta Worlds: Life Between Land and Water.

"The book presents insightful observations, conversations and case studies, showing the variety of forms that wet environments, and the life there, can take. It encourages readers to reject extreme binaries and imagine new ways of understanding the vibrant life in amphibious worlds."

• Foreword by K. SivaramakrishnanAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Franz Krause, Luisa Cortesi, Alejandro CamargoPart I. On the Brink1. Postnatural Environmental Management in an Amphibious Delta: Hybridity, Performativity, and Indeterminacy at the Salton Sea, by Alida Cantor2. Between Hydro and Geo: Amphibious Spaces of Social Exception, by Simone Popperl3. The Shape of Waterland: A Geomorphoanthropological Commentary on Fluvial Infrastructures and Amphibious Environmental Knowledge, by Luisa CortesiPart II. In the Damp4. Keeping the Land Wet: "Wet Lands" and the Rise of "Wetland Literacy" by Paolo Gruppuso5. Situating Wetness in Soomaa, Estonia, by Franz Krause6. The Hyporheic Imaginary in Multispecies Watershed Governance, How Beaver Collaborations Remix Patterns of Wet and Dry in Northern California Streams, by Cleo Woelfle-Hazard and Daniel Sarna-WojcickiPart III. Through the Muck7. Restoring Wetlands in Alpine Ski Resorts: The Biopolitics of Water, Land, and Snow by Céline Granjou and Stéphanie Gaucherand8. Muddy Waters: Governing the Littoral in Andros Island, The Bahamas, by Sarah Wise9. The Contours of the Amphibious: Wetlands, Knowledge, and Politics in Colombia by Alejandro CamargoAmphibious Epilogue, by Stuart McLeanList of ContributorsIndex