Introduction: Water Ways: Critical Studies in Gulf and Arab History
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Gulf History، Arab History، Water Waysالملخص
This special issue comprises four studies that explore various social and historical phenomena in which water plays a central role.
المراجع
- See for example: Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter (Dallas: Dallas Institute of the Humanities and Culture, 1999).
- See: Peter Schulz & Alexis Gros, “Toward a Sociology of Water: Reconstructing the Missing ‘Big Picture’ of Social Water Research,” Water , vol. 16 (2024).
- For a general survey of the history of climate change, see: Antonello Provenzale, History of Climate Change: From Earth’s Origin to the Anthropocene (London: Polity 2023). For the intersection between climate change and social, economic, and political history, see: Sunil Amrith, The Burning Earth: A history (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2024).
- One of the first sociological studies that linked developments in late capitalism and the use of water metaphors to describe the consequences of these developments for social and cultural processes was Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity. See: Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity (London: Polity, 2000). For the characteristics of digital capitalism, see: Sabine Pfeiffer, Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces , Jan-Peter Hermann (trans.) (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2022).
- For more on transformations in the political field under digital capitalism, see for example: Ulrike Klinger, Daniel Kreiss & Bruce Mutsvario, Platforms, Power, and Politics: An Introduction to Political Communication in the Digital Age (London: Polity, 2023); Michael Betancourt, The Critique of Digital Capitalism: An Analysis of the Political Economy of Digital Culture and Technology (New York: Punctum Books, 2015). On transformations of knowledge and the academic establishment under digital capitalism, see for example: Thomas Almer, “Academic Labour, Digital Media, and Capitalism,” Critical Sociology, vol. 45, no. 4-5 (2019), pp. 599-615.
- The storage of water has long been considered a key measure of civilizational development. Initially, the concepts of storage and rechannelling were applied to the study of riverine societies. Over time, this conceptual approach was extended to encompass the storage and redistribution of other material and symbolic resources.
- For more on the concept of materiality, see: Daniel Miller (ed.), Materiality (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005). For more on the concept of “formlessness”, see: Yve-Alain Bois & Rosalind Krauss, Formless: A User’s Guide (New York: Zone Books, 1997).
- On the concepts of place and space in late capitalism, see for example: Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990), pp. 154-180; Harvey, pp. 201-323.
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2025-09-01
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