I was grateful to receive the invitation from Ulrik Ekman to contribute to the Environmental Humanities Glossary. It was an opportunity to publish a short piece on the concept of hydrocommoning, the title of my forthcoming book with University of Minnesota Press, and to think through Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Theory of Water, which I had just finished when I wrote the piece. The Glossary is open access and available via this link.
This EH glossary of key terms engages with the potentials and challenges of addressing climate change by experimenting with different modes of speaking in environmental humanities tongues, via a transdisciplinary dialogue across the faculties. The collection of entries seeks to pave the way through the challenges of defining key descriptive and normative terms for the environmental humanities – to let new senses emerge, whose operative usage may offer better purchase at moving through the complex environmental and human problems at stake.
The glossary is edited by Ulrik Ekman and Daniel Irrgang and was conceived as part of the activities in the Art and Earth research cluster in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.