2026/06/04 by Gabriella Palermo · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Water Governance and Infrastructure #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
paper · doi:10.1177/20438206261455824
openalex publication_date 2026/06/04 · openalex created_date 2026/06/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/17
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.