hydrocommoning – Lisa Blackmore

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New article: Hydrocommoning, Environmental Humanities Glossary

by Lisa August 10, 2025February 15, 2026No Comments

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 …

Hydrocommoning, Cultural Studies Colloquium, UC Santa Cruz

by Lisa October 24, 2024October 24, 2024No Comments

In this talk, I presented ‘hydrocommoning’ as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. I laid out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously situated embodied …