1st Edition
Problematising Water An Experiment on the Edges of Interdisciplinarity
Introduction: How to think, research, and write with water – a problematological turn 1. Thinking problematically with the water fountain 2. Probing problematisation in the plastics and climate crises 3. Loitering as a method of interdisciplinary research 4. Sociography of a curious object 5. Using ethnomethodology to make sense of the #OneLess refill water fountain pilot
Biography
Nicole Vitellone is AF Warr Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Law and Social Justice and Co-Director of Centre for Health, Arts, Society & Environment (CHASE) at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
"Nicole Vitellone’s Problematising Water: An Experiment on the Edges of Interdisciplinarity is a tour de force of conceptual and empirical invention. Tracing a path that takes in Foucault’s problematisation of problematisation through Stengers’ experimental constructivism and Garfinkelian ethnomethodology, Vitellone unpicks the methodological and ontological complexities of practically engaging with water in its multiple guises. In particular, the sustained focus on the #OneLess refill water fountain experiment yields a sophisticated exploration of the ways in which water is variously enacted by publics and professionals, within and across disciplines, and by the social scientific researcher themselves. Out of this emerges an innovative, insightful and evocative picture – a mosaic – of how an environmental politics can manifest in its specificity."
Mike Michael, Professor of Sociology, University of Exeter
