Introduction

Hydrofictions ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Hannah Boast
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Water Crisis ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Water Wars

The Introduction provides an overview of key hydropolitical issues in Israel/Palestine. It situates contemporary debates over topics including desalination, greenwashing, water crisis and water wars in a longer historical context that includes earlier Zionist attitudes towards the environment. It relates the book to recent critical trends in Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Geography and Postcolonial Studies, particularly Petrofiction and the Blue Humanities.

Introduction: Scottish Colonial Literature, 1603–1707

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Kirsten Sandrock
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Utopian Literature ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Atlantic Literature

This chapter establishes the book's key claim that Scottish colonial literature in the seventeenth century is poised between narratives of possession and dispossession. It introduces the term colonial utopian literature to frame the intricate relationship between colonialism and utopianism in the seventeenth century. The chapter uses the instances of book burnings in Edinburgh and London in 1700 that revolved around Scotland's colonial venture in Darien as a starting point for the discussion to make a case for the centrality of literary texts in the history of Scottish colonialism. In addition, it introduces the historical context of seventeenth-century Scottish colonialism, especially in relation to the emergent British Empire, inner-British power dynamics, and other European imperial projects. On a theoretical level, the chapter enters debates about Scotland's position in colonial and postcolonial studies through its focus on pre-1707 Atlantic literature. It also makes a fresh argument about Atlantic writing contributing to the transformation of utopian literature from a fictional towards a reformist genre.

Conclusion

Hydrofictions ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 189-197
Author(s):  
Hannah Boast
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Future Directions

The Conclusion identifies future directions for research on Israeli and Palestinian hydrofictions, and in hydrocriticism more broadly. It examines the implications of the monograph for Postcolonial Studies and the Environmental Humanities. It underlines the contribution of literature to campaigns for environmental justice in Israel/Palestine and beyond.

scholarly journals Making Sense of “Day Zero”: Slow Catastrophes, Anthropocene Futures, and the Story of Cape Town’s Water Crisis

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Complex Object ◽  
Water Crisis ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Water Wars

What form do the current and future catastrophes of the Anthropocene take? Adapting a concept from Rod Nixon, this communication makes a case for the notion of slow catastrophes, whose unfolding in space and time is uneven and entangled. Taking the events of Cape Town’s Day Zero drought as a case study, this paper examines the politics and poetics of water in the Anthropocene, and the implications of Anthropogenic climate change for urban life. It argues that rather than being understood as an inert resource, fresh drinking water is a complex object constructed at the intersection between natural systems, cultural imaginaries, and social, political and economic interests. The extraordinary events of Day Zero raised the specter of Mad Max-style water wars. They also led to the development of new forms of solidarity, with water acting as a social leveler. The paper argues that the events in Cape Town open a window onto the future, to the extent that it describes something about what happens when the added stresses of climate change are mapped onto already-contested social and political situations.

scholarly journals When States Go Thirsty: A Critical Analysis of Water War Thesis

2017 ◽  
Vol II (I) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Manzoor Ahmad ◽  
Adil Khan ◽  
Muhammad Imran Mehsud
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Water Crisis ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Water Wars ◽  
The World ◽  
Fault Lines

This paper discusses water war thesis. It argues that water war thesis is loosely based on the arguments by different world leaders, and writers which state that the new fault lines between states will be drawn on waters. The basic premise of the water war thesis rests on the argument of water crisis; the demand-supply gap will make states thirsty for water. It asserts that as climate changes unfold and population of the world increases, the thirsty states of the world will vie for water resources which will result in water wars. However, there are different writers who challenge the thesis by arguing that instead of generating conflict, water scarcity will induce cooperation amongst riparian states. This paper mainly focuses on this question of whether water scarcity results in conflict or cooperation. In other words, it offers a critical analysis of the water war thesis

scholarly journals La Peste d’Albert Camus : une analyse de la société coloniale algérienne à travers le prisme de l’épidémie

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Berardi
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Levels

March 2020: as Coronavirus continues spreading across the globe, the well-known novel La Peste (1947) by Albert Camus appeals to new readers all over the world. This article offers a new modest reading of La Peste by adopting an approach which emerges from the intersection between Environmental Humanities and Postcolonial Studies. We will explore to what extent the plague is an allegory of human suffering and isolate the different levels on which the allegory may work. Furthermore, we will focus on the link between the representation of the plague outbreaking in Oran and the French-Algerian, multiethnic society. What will the “epidemic fiction” reveal about social structures and practices in the context of colonial Algeria’s last years of existence, and how? The representation of the epidemic seems to mirror the inequalities of that colonial society that is not depicted in the novel, and yet it reminds the reader that societies are constructed and thus, can be improved.

Introduction

Post-Mandarin ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Tran
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Sexual Relations ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Southeast Asian Studies

Elaborating upon the concept of the “post-mandarin” and its historical context, the introduction draws the connection between post-mandarin intellectuals, masculinity, and altered gender and sexual relations during colonial modernity, while situating these claims within the fields of Vietnam and Southeast Asian studies, as well as modernist and postcolonial studies.

scholarly journals Water crisis and water wars: myths and realities

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 727-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asit K. Biswas ◽  
Cecilia Tortajada
Keyword(s):  
Water Crisis ◽  
Water Wars

scholarly journals La Peste d’Albert Camus : une analyse de la société coloniale algérienne à travers le prisme de l’épidémie

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Berardi
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Levels

March 2020: as Coronavirus continues spreading across the globe, the well-known novel La Peste (1947) by Albert Camus appeals to new readers all over the world. This article offers a new modest reading of La Peste by adopting an approach which emerges from the intersection between Environmental Humanities and Postcolonial Studies. We will explore to what extent the plague is an allegory of human suffering and isolate the different levels on which the allegory may work. Furthermore, we will focus on the link between the representation of the plague outbreaking in Oran and the French-Algerian, multiethnic society. What will the ‘epidemic fiction’ reveal about social structures and practices in the context of colonial Algeria’s last years of existence, and how? The representation of the epidemic seems to mirror the inequalities of that colonial society that is not depicted in the novel, and yet it reminds the reader that societies are constructed and, thus, can be improved.

Psychology as a Profession and a Science

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ype H. Poortinga ◽  
Ingrid Lunt
Keyword(s):  
European Association ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Professional Psychologists

The European Association of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA) was created in 1981 as the European Association of Professional Psychologists’ Associations (EFPPA). We show that Shakespeare’s dictum “What’s in a name?” does not apply here and that the loss of the “first P” (the adjectival “professional”) was resisted for almost two decades and experienced by many as a serious loss. We recount some of the deliberations preceding the change and place these in a broader historical context by drawing parallels with similar developments elsewhere. Much of the argument will refer to an underlying controversy between psychology as a science and the practice of psychology, a controversy that is stronger than in most other sciences, but nevertheless needs to be resolved.

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