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Water Enclosure and World-Literature: New Perspectives on Hydro-Power and World-Ecology

2020; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 9; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/h9030106

2076-0787

Alexandra Campbell, Michael Paye,

Geographies of human-animal interactions

This editorial introduces the special issue, ‘World Literature and the Blue Humanities’. The authors articulate the commonalities and tensions between world literature, world-ecology, blue humanities, and hydrocultural approaches. Taking megadams, water pollution, and the blue revolution as baselines, we offer short analyses of works by Namwali Serpell, Craig Santos Perez, Jean Arasanayagam, Paul Greengrass, Wyl Menmuir, and Emily St. John Mandel in order to articulate how culture can both contest and normalize water enclosure. The piece ends with a brief summary of the contributions to the special issue.