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Eco-Aesthetics: A Framework of Watery Bodies and Fog-Scapes in Art
Water, besides being a central element of the environmental crisis, plays a profoundly symbolic and political role within contemporary societies. It is at the heart of numerous social struggles, embodying the demands of environmentalists, trade unions, and workers who oppose its privatization. The defense of water as a common and public good serves as a…
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The Power of Sea Water as an Element of Healing and Connectedness in Caribbean and Diasporic Narratives
The boundless dimension that characterizes the element of water, as well as the sea itself, cannot be captured in simple terms, but various scholars, authors, and theorists have tried to describe its essence. Whether it is through a tale of travel, war, the conquest of new lands, death, birth and rebirth, or ancestry, the sea…
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CALL FOR PAPERS – Fluid Archives: Rethinking Agency in the Hydro-Commons
In the “storied seas” of the Anthropocene, water is never merely a backdrop; it is an archive (Oppermann 2019). Its ebb and flow resemble the turning over of eternal epigraphs. The sustained contact between groundwater and surface water over centuries—and indeed, for as long as the earth has existed—has established persistent waterscapes that give life…
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