In this paper, Dr Nanneke Winters, Dr Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits and Dr Helena Pérez Niño introduce Édouard Glissant’s 'archipelagic thinking' as a new way to study securitized water bodies and borders.
Focusing on evidence gathered in Sri Lanka, Panama and the Philippines, the authors use this approach to deconstruct and challenge discourses that rely on threatening metaphors of water which emphasize fear, instability and control. Instead they highlight water's agentive, relational, life-sustaining and identity-forming qualities.
Read the article online - 'Making sense of securitised water bodies and borders through the lens of Glissant’s archipelagic thinking' Goeforum Vol. 173, July 2026.
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