Project blog

This blog documents theoretical and methodological developments in the project and comments on relevant events as well as insights into the daily working life of DELTA. By clicking on the tags on the right, you can find further entries on the respective issues.

10/18/2021

Delta Anthropology: a Matter of Perspective

What is a river delta?

04/30/2021

In"-less: a short story of fisher dispossession and migration in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar

Benoit from the DELTA team tells a short story of fisher migration amidst water infrastructure development in the…

03/01/2021

Tracing ‘the social’ in flooding

Franz from the DELTA team was recently invited by an interdisciplinary research project to share his thoughts on ‘the…

06/04/2020

Volatility

What do we mean when we say "volatility" and "volatile" in this project? Here are some pointers...

01/17/2020

Hydro-Perspectivism

A new open-access publication considers ways of learning about terrestrial life from a watery angle.

10/28/2019

Le delta n'existe pas

In this blogpost on the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal, I try to work out how deltaic flows do not necessarily follow the…

02/11/2019

Beyond mosaics and matryoshkas. Thinking about indigeneity and decolonisation in the Circumpolar North. And beyond.

Some thoughts on indigeneity and decolonisation in the Circumpolar North, from an inspiring workshop at the Universität…

11/09/2018

Can something be fluid and still solid? Musings about “solid fluids“

A blog post on why it is helpful to approach materials and meanings as "solid fluids", and why "solid" and "fluid" still…

05/17/2018

On Circularity and Linearity in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal

We commonly understand the history of human civilisation as a linear process. Egalitarian bands of hunters and gatherers…

04/04/2018

In the rhythm of the shrimp tide

In Barrinha, island and village of the Parnaíba Delta, shrimp fishing is the main livelihood activity. This text gives…

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