Friendship is a slow ripening fruit

An Agency Perspective on Water, Values and Infrastructure

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5082819
AutoresMaurits W Ertsen (0000-0001-7622-253X, Delft University of Technology, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen48
Número4
Páginas500-516
Fecha de publicación2016-08-07
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2016.1246975
OpenAlexW2555833329
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas66

This paper argues that human and material agents co-shape ‘morality’. Water systems will be discussed in more detail. Artefacts (technologies) relate humans and their worlds, but the specifics of this relationship become meaningful only within specific actor-networks. As such, the material influences the moral decisions of humans. Examples from the larger Mesopotamian area, on both state-led and community-managed water systems, are discussed to show that these result from activities of individuals, households and groups manipulating water fluxes in short time periods of hours and days. Analysis of these daily activities, and especially of how the material acts, offers options for archaeologists to trace morality in action

Action (physics · Agency (philosophy · Environmental ethics · Friendship · Morality · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Social science · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure