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Water Logics
Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities
Yasser Elhariry (Edited by), Edwige Tamalet Talbayev Ph.D (Edited by), Matthew Brauer (Contributions by), Olivia Durand (Contributions by), Brian T. Edwards (Contributions by), Stefan Helmreich (Contributions by), Charles Heller (Contributions by), Nicole Horne (Contributions by), Isabelle Keller-Privat (Contributions by), Shanaaz Mohammed (Contributions by), Martin Munro (Contributions by), Supriya M. Nair (Contributions by), Aaron Pinnix (Contributions by), Nathalie Roelens (Contributions by), Marie Sandoz (Contributions by), Philip Steinberg (Contributions by), Bradley Stephens (Contributions by), Anne-Katrin Weber (Contributions by)
9780813954202
Hardback, published 20 March 2026
342 pages, 26 b&w illus
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.626 kg
Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itself Water Logics examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical readings of rivers, seas, and oceans, it brings together leading voices from across the social sciences and the humanities to argue rather for a distinct focus on materiality, engaging posthumanism, biotheory, and other cutting-edge theoretical approaches. From the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean, this rich collection is inhabited by migrants, port cities, and coral reefs. It explores the fruitful potential of water for literary, anthropological, and ethical studies, bringing both cohesive transdisciplinarity and fresh comparative perspectives to hydro-criticism. Taken together, the wide range of critical interpretative practices constitutes a signal contribution to the blue humanities.
Acknowledgments Watermarks: Toward a Water Logics / yasser elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev Of Flood and Drought: Water Logics and the Shaping of Odessa and New Orleans / Olivia Irena Durand Wave Lab Logic / Stefan Helmreich The Wave as an Epistemological Challenge Today / Nathalie Roelens Thinking from Multiple Oceans: Historical and Elemental Lineages and Futures of Ocean Geography(s) / Philip Steinberg Mo[u]rning in the Mediterranean: Liquid Mortuaries and the Arts of Re-Membering / Supriya M. Nair Water Necropolitics / Edwige Tamalet Talbayev From Surveillance to Contestation: The Ebb and Flow of the Mediterranean Frontier's Aesthetic Regime. An interview with Charles Heller / Marie Sandoz and Anne-Katrin Weber, translated by Nicole Horne Coralization: Coral Materiality in Khal Torabully's Poetry / Shanaaz Mohammed Is the Sea History? The Marine Life of Recent Haitian Fiction / Martin Munro Liquid Language / Aaron Pinnix Between the Mountains and the Sea: Currents and Currency of Terrestrial Waters and Aqueous Idioms in Morocco / Matthew Brauer Towards a Romantic Hydrocommons: Victor Hugo, Humanity, and Hydrology / Bradley Stephens "Forever Folding and Unfolding": The Critical Depths of David Gascoyne's Poetics / Isabelle Keller-Privat Afterword: Logics of Port Cities / Brian T. Edwards Notes on Contributors Index