This essay introduces the idea of hydro-perspectivism in order to better understand whathappens if anthropologists, alongside their research participants, comment on terrestriallife from a watery angle. Based on a close reading of the contributions to this special issue, it indicates how being afloat rather than grounded, shifts people’s points of referencearound, even though their general … Read more
Itinerant boat-dwellers on the waterways in London have been portrayed as a communityof like-minded people living alternative lives, sharing skills, resources, and space. Thispaper complicates the neat presentation of a boating community or imagined communitythrough auto-ethnographic research as an itinerant boat dweller on the waterways in London and through seventeen in-depth interviews conducted within this … Read more
This special issue explores the materialities, (im)mobilities and meanings of dwelling onand with water by asking how is water experienced, narrated, and understood. Water’sphysical qualities both afford mobility and create frictions, thus complicating the boundaries between moving and staying, while waterscapes are also full of political, socio-cultural, and metaphorical meanings. Dwelling on water presents a … Read more