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Water: Crises, Critiques, Imaginaries book cover

1st Edition

Water Crises, Critiques, Imaginaries

Edited By Ewa Macura-Nnamdi, Tomasz Sikora Copyright 2025
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Foreword
Ewa Macura-Nnamdi and Tomasz Sikora

 

Introduction: Water

Ewa Macura-Nnamdi and Tomasz Sikora

 

1. Hydropower: residual dwelling between life and nonlife

Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

 

2. Intercorporeity of Animated Water: contesting anthropocentric settler sovereignty

Joseph Pugliese

 

3. Just Keep Swimming? queer pooling and hydropoetics

Jeremy Chow and Maite Urcaregui

 

4. A Sinking Empire

Mikki Stelder

 

5. Social Property in The Cochabamba Water War, Bolivia 2000

Massimiliano Tomba

 

6. A Timeful Theory of Knowledge: thunderstorms, dams, and the disclosure of planetary history

Kieran M. Murphy

 

7. Learning Waters

Gil Anidjar

 

8. Figurations of Water: on pathogens, purity, and contamination

Agnieszka Pantuchowicz

 

9. Mère Métaphore: the maternal materiality of water in astrida neimanis’s bodies of water

Eszter Timár

 

10. The Other Water

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Biography

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).

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