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Drawing on some recent developments in the blue humanities, this book addresses water as a material, political and cultural phenomenon across a variety of spatial and temporal contexts.
Moving beyond the somewhat hackneyed concepts of fluidity and flows, this volume gathers critical perspectives that balance between the scientific, the social, the (bio- )political and the cultural. The contributors to this book draw on a wide and rapidly growing body of scholarship that includes (but is not limited to) maritime, climate change and Anthropocene studies as well as the 'blue humanities.' Three major, broadly conceived currents of thought run through these essays: the protean relationalities that water enables; appropriations of water in modernist logics of regulation and management; and the problematic figurations of water in scientific, philosophical, cultural, political and legal discourses. Thematically, the chapters address a wide range of phenomena, events and concepts, including Mediterranean migrant deaths, water as a medium of not- only- human intimacy and queer potentiality, swimming pools, the 2000 Cochabamba water war, the legacy of Grotius's legal philosophy, imperialist and capitalist notions of property and ownership, notions of purity and contamination, hydroelectricity's impact on the perception of time, the inadequacy of disciplinary knowledge and pedagogy, and 'maternal' figurations of water in some contemporary feminist theorizations.
This book will be of interest to scholars working at the intersection of, broadly conceived, cultural and water studies. It can also be used as a coursebook for teachers offering courses on the politics and aesthetics of water. It was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.
Contents
Foreword Introduction: Water 1. Hydropower: residual dwelling between life and nonlife 2. Intercorporeity of Animated Water: contesting anthropocentric settler sovereignty 3. Just Keep Swimming? queer pooling and hydropoetics 4. A Sinking Empire 5. Social Property in The Cochabamba Water War, Bolivia 2000 6. A Timeful Theory of Knowledge: thunderstorms, dams, and the disclosure of planetary history 7. Learning Waters 8. Figurations of Water: on pathogens, purity, and contamination 9. Mère Métaphore: the maternal materiality of water in astrida neimanis's bodies of water 10. The Other Water
