This special issue of Oceania interrogates the material and cultural factors underpinning water socio-economies in Australia; a critical project given the wet and dry crises now unfolding in the Anthropocene. Three themes inform the collection – materialities, imaginaries and temporalities – each of which animates a diverse array of ethnographic inquiry into transformative water futures. The radical potential of kinship is also a cross-cutting theme, with the articles collectively revealing how kin relatedness works to disrupt the categorical framing of ‘modern water’ as an extractive resource.

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后记：水未来中的亲属关系可能性

本期《大洋洲》特刊探讨了支撑澳大利亚水社会经济的物质和文化因素；鉴于人类世目前正在发生的干湿危机，这是一个至关重要的项目。该系列涵盖三个主题——物质性、想象性和时间性——每个主题都激发了对变革性水未来的各种民族志调查。亲属关系的根本潜力也是一个跨领域的主题，这些文章共同揭示了亲属关系如何破坏“现代水”作为一种采掘资源的分类框架。