Water materialities and the politics of unlearning for vanishing lakes

Abstract

Doğmuş's article on Vanishing Lakes offers a provocative and timely intervention in human geography and its related fields by looking at vanishing lakes and analysing their multiple conceptualisations of care, anxiety, loss, disappearance, and haunting. This commentary builds on Doğmuş's intervention, firstly, by engaging with the many layers of meanings entangled in the powerful and potential conceptualisation of vanishing lakes as ‘the undoing of worlds’ focusing on water's materialities. Secondly, by questioning its Heidegger's centrality and the use of Western thought to think with decolonial and feminist epistemologies. Finally, it claims for engaging with water materialities for the politics of unlearning.

Keywords

Decolonial practices feminist and Black geographies more-than-wet ontologies unlearning politics water geographies

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