ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Global Hydroconnectivities beyond Oceans, Seas and Rivers
HydroConnect focuses on the connectivities afforded by hidden, underground fresh water that surfaces along the coastlines of islands lacking accessible, perennial fresh water. It explores how Austronesian-speaking seafarers transformed such freshwater ‘seeps’ into wells throughout the South China Sea and Indo-Pacific, affording sea-routes around these well networks. Thus, HydroConnect breaks with the tendency in the social sciences and historiography to analytically privilege oceans or navigable rivers as vectors of global connections and history-making. With the innovative concept of hydroconnectivities – human connections afforded by fresh water access – HydroConnect develops a novel…
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