Containers and String Figures: Reflections from a summer school on water care in Patagonia

In the past years, the concept of care has gained popularity in the social sciences. Carolina Domínguez-Guzmán distinguishes two ways in which it has been mobilised in water studies and uses the metaphor of string figuring to suggest how to keep using the term to spark connections and imaginations, instead of reducing it to another catch-all container. Photo credits: orillasnuevas.org Last year, I was invited to give a talk at the first post-graduate summer school on care and water justice i...