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Explores how animated water, rivers and dams can be used to frame language, southern multilingualisms and to develop pedagogies
This book explores how water functions as both a material reality and an epistemological metaphor for rethinking knowledge production from decolonial and Global South perspectives.
It brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to examine how water – rivers, oceans, rain and aquatic cosmologies – shapes ways of knowing, remembering and relating to the environment. The chapters critically interrogate dominant Western epistemologies and foreground Southern and decolonial epistemologies.
The book seeks to recover marginalized knowledge traditions and challenge dominant academic Eurocentric frameworks proposing water as a generative site for reimagining knowledge production.
It contributes to ongoing debates in decolonial studies, environmental humanities, education and African studies, offering new metaphors, methodologies and paths towards solidarity and collaboration.
Susan Wairimu Mahachi is an independent scholar and educational consultant with a PhD from Pennsylvania State University, USA. Her research centers on educational theories that seek to create pluriversal learning spaces—spaces that recognize and engage diverse epistemologies while supporting students’ conceptual thinking in science education.
Sinfree Makoni is Director of African Studies, Liberal Arts Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Phoebe Quaynor is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Foreword. Ashraf Abdelhay: Water: A Decolonial Sociolinguistic Heuristic
Introduction. Sinfree Makoni, Susan Wairimu Mahachi, Mama Nii-Owoo Adobea, and Loreen Marata: “It Is Precisely Dangerous and Wild Aspects of Rivers That Makes Them Good to Think With”: Reflections on Decolonial Thinking About Language Using Riverine Sociolinguistics and Water Grammars
Chapter 1. Comfort Azubuko-Udah: Storying Piped and Domestic Water in Nigerian Literature
Chapter 2. Charne Lavery: The Southern Indian Ocean and the Oceanic South
Chapter 3. Isabel Hofmeyr: Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House
Chapter 4. Sarah Nuttall: On Pluviality: Rain as Method
Chapter 5. Bonnie McElhinny and Sinfree Makoni: Once Upon a River: A Conversation About Water, Water Epistemologies, and Language
Chapter 6. Sybil Diver: Social Impact Assessment of Klamath Dam Removal: Learning from the Karuk Tribe’s Leadership for Eco-Cultural Revitalization
Chapter 7. Priya Parrotta: From Archives to Soundscapes: Integrating Historiography, Music and Environmental Consciousness in Courses on Tropical Islands
Chapter 8. Lucia Thesen: Knowledge-Making from A Postgraduate Writers’ Circle: A Southern Reflectory
Afterword. Tommaso Milani: Ways of Water: Politics, Pedagogy, Epistemology