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X-WR-CALNAME:Trisha Remetir (UCR) - Freshwater: The rise of aquaculture in 
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DESCRIPTION:Talk Title\n\nFreshwater: The rise of aquaculture in Filipinx/o
  visual cultures\n\nAbstract\n\nIn the 1970s\, amid fears of declining fis
 h stocks in international marine spaces\, state agencies began industriali
 zing Philippine freshwater sites and introducing standardized aquaculture 
 (fish farming) technology to lakes around the archipelago. This inward shi
 ft altered the look and organization of lakes\, and textured how freshwate
 r appeared in research and development reports\, fisher manuals\, and film
 s. In this presentation\, I outline the ways that literary freshwater site
 s have been aesthetically shaped by competing visions of scientific develo
 pment\, state repression\, and protest. Through a feminist\, science and t
 echnology studies (STS) oriented visual analysis of two films—Ishmael Be
 rnal's 1976 film Nunal Sa Tubig (Speck in the Water) and Alix Adolfo Jr.'s
  2007 film Isda—I ask how freshwater shapes the visual field. Bernal's d
 ocumentary aesthetics re-narrate the explosive story of freshwater lake La
 guna de Bay through a female friendship threatened by a love triangle. Ado
 lfo Jr.'s film captures a fabled story in which a woman gives birth to a f
 ish and\, through innovative camera shots\, imagines how human relationshi
 ps might change with fish at their center. Ultimately\, I argue that both 
 films engage in a countervisual aesthetics and focus on women and fish per
 spectives to critique aquaculture's "extractive view\," a term theorized b
 y Macarena Gómez-Barris that appraises environments only through their re
 source outputs. Instead\, these films reach for submerged visions of creat
 ive\, interspecies flourishing\, which flow outward from the Philippines t
 o impact literary cultures of the Americas. Freshwater and its histories o
 f extraction\, environmental management and community revolt\, then\, are 
 important extensions of Asian/American literary formation. Through freshwa
 ter optics\, I offer a diasporic approach to Asian American literature stu
 dies that sees environmental struggles in the Philippines not only as spec
 ks in the water\, but as aesthetic archives for living differently.\n\nBio
 \n\nTrisha Federis Remetir is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the De
 partment of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California\, R
 iverside. She specializes in narratives of race\, extraction\, and migrati
 on in and across the Pacific. She received her PhD in English and Comparat
 ive Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her boo
 k project\, Unfamiliar Waters\, traces how extractive industries and water
 scapes have altered and influenced contemporary Filipinx/o films\, poetry\
 , and experimental media. Her published and forthcoming works may be found
  in Environment\, Media and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia\, Philippine
  Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints\, and ASAP/Journal. In he
 r research and creative life\, she is interested in witnessing the racial 
 and environmental histories of the Philippines and connecting to other sit
 es of environmental survival and struggle through the comparative potentia
 l of water.
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SUMMARY:Trisha Remetir (UCR) - Freshwater: The rise of aquaculture in Filip
 inx/o visual cultures
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 the_rise_of_aquaculture_in_filipinxo_visual_cultures
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