Water Logics : Explorations in Environmental Humanities

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.

yasser elhariry is Associate Professor of French Studies at Dartmouth College and the author of Pacifist Invasions. Edwige Tamalet Talbayev is Associate Professor of French at Tulane University, Professor Extraordinarius at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, and the author of The Transcontinental Maghreb.