Flooding

In this episode, Andrew Fehribach (researcher with the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies) speaks with Margaret Cook (an Honorary Research Fellow at University of Queensland and at La Trobe University in Australia) about her research into the history of fluvial flooding in Brisbane, Australia. The major themes of their conversation are in the interactions with rivers and flooding to memory, sensorial experiences, and rhetoric. They also discuss community and how people make decisions based around water, including where to live, reactions to future flooding, and dealing with drought. Continuing research in the blue humanities, Cook describes the need to further include indigenous studies, explore gendered relationships to flooding and water, trace the impact of multiculturalism in perceptions of the environment, and to give space to the non-human.