Literature

Here, you can find articles and book chapters that explore watery imaginaries. Whether you're completely new to the topic or are looking to expand your hydro-horizons, you're welcome to browse through our recommendations. 

Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water by Astrida Neimanis

Keywords: hydrofeminism, relationality, transcorporality 

 

Feminist Subjectivity, Watered by Astrida Neimanis

Keywords: water, subjectivity, figuration, new materialism, posthumanism

 

 

Women, Water, Energy: An Ecofeminist Approach by Greta Gaard

Keywords: ecofeminism, justice, water

 

Misty Bodies of Water and Artistic Relationality in the Hydrocene by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris

Keywords: Hydrocene, mist, weather, eco-critical art, eco-aesthetics, hydro-artistic methods, bodies of water

 

Waves as a Hydro-Choreographic Material in the Hydrocene by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris

Keywords: waving, Hydrocene, eco-critical performance, bodies of water, queering

 

Hydraulic Bureaucracies and the Hydraulic Mission: Flows of Water, Flows of Power by François Molle, Peter P. Mollinga, Philippus Wester

Keywords: irrigation, hydraulic mission, water resource development, iron triangle, interest groups, reform

 

Hydropoetics: The Rewor(l)ding of Rivers by John Charles Ryan

keywords: embodiment, humanriver relations, hydropoetics, Indonesia, multiscalarity, poiesis, polyvocality, relationality

Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice by Boelens et al.

Keywords: Environmental justice, river commoning, translocal movements, hydrosocial territories, ontological complexity, disruptive co-production

Developing a hydrofeminist art practice: bodies, spaces, practices by L.R. Denning 

Keywords: Hydrofeminism, Transcorporeality, Creative Practice, Transdisciplinary, Ecotone

 

Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Haraway

Keywords: cyborg, situated knowledge, feminist epistemology, nature/culture boundary, primatology, technoscience, gender, postmodern feminism

Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective by Donna Haraway

Keywords: feminist objectivity, science studies, epistemology, positionality, embodiment

What Is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction by Jamie Linton

Keywords: modern water, hydrosocial cycle, social nature, water crisis, hydrolectics

 

Multispecies Dialogues: Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea and Others by Eva Meijer

Keywords: multispecies dialogue, more-than-human agency, anthropocentrism, embodied communication, animal philosophy

 

In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings by James C. Scott

Keywords: flood pulse, political ecology, more-than-human, state legibility, floodplain