Panel CFP for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11 2025, University of Maryland, College Park

Water, as a shared and finite resource, both reflects and changes the relations of power that govern its uses, distributions, and representations. As the material consequences of water mismanagement continue to manifest—ranging from deep-sea mining to the severe water insecurity that disproportionately affects communities of colour—contestations over water that occur in “imaginative geographies” (Edward Said) and speculative environments may bring those uneven power relations and their latent racializing logics …