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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. It was originally published as a special issue of
Angelaki.
List of 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
About the author
Ewa Macura- Nnamdi is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia, Poland. Her main research interests revolve around the aesthetics and politics of two issues: refugeehood (and migration more generally) and environmental degradation in the Global South. She examines both phenomena across a cultural archive encompassing literature, film and philosophy. She is currently working on a book titled
Law, Refugees and the Sea: Interim Lives (under contract with Routledge) and leading a research grant project titled 'Weathers of the Future: Climate Change and Displacement'.
Tomasz Sikora teaches literature, culture and theory at UKEN University, Krakow, Poland. His varied research interests include queer theory, literature and cultural studies, gothic and grotesque, biopolitics, environmental humanities and more. He has published two books:
Virtually Wild: Wilderness, Technology and the Ecology of Mediation (2003) and
Bodies Out of Rule: Transversal Readings in Canadian Literature and Film (2014). He is one of the founders and editors of
InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies (interalia.queerstudies.pl).
Summary
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. It was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.
