37.2144, Books: Language, Water, Power: Pennycook (2026)

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Date: 18-Jun-2026
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language, Water, Power: Pennycook (2026)


Title: Language, Water, Power
Series Title: Elements in Language and Power
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/language-water-power?format=PB&isbn=9781009736466

Author(s): Alastair Pennycook

Hardback ISBN:  9781009736503 Pages:  78 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009736503 Pages:  78 Price: Europe EURO 64.19
Hardback ISBN:  9781009736503 Pages:  78 Price: U.S. $ 77.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009736466 Pages:  78 Price: U.K. £ 18.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009736466 Pages:  78 Price: Europe EURO 21.01
Paperback ISBN:  9781009736466 Pages:  78 Price: U.S. $ 25.00

Abstract:

This Element is about language, water and power. It challenges the
terracentric bias of much scholarship in language studies, suggesting
instead that oceans and rivers should be central in investigations of
language, history, culture, society and politics. Working through
different engagements with water – swimming, surfing, sailing and
diving – this Element explores how thinking in and with water can
transform our understandings of justice, power and language. By taking
water seriously as both a social and material category, hydrosocial
perspectives draw attention to the ways modern water and language are
controlled, restricted, standardized and contained. A hydrocolonial
lens focuses on the centrality of water in colonial regimes, the
oceanic origins of creoles and the need to decolonize control and
conceptions of water. For critical hydrosocial language studies
language is entangled in an inequitable watery world, and language
study from below is a form of spiritual, material and embodied
engagement.

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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