Water flows through our lives as sustenance, border, weapon, and witness. While geography—etymologically, the writing of the land—has long underpinned the spatial logics of modern geopolitics, hydrography—conventionally understood as the mapping and measurement of waterways—is reconceived here as a fluid cartography through which it is possible to imagine common desires, shared struggles, and transnational solidarities.

Hydrographies explores the political, ecological, and cosmological dimensions of water through contemporary visual art and image-based practices. It brings together artists, filmmakers, activists, writers, and scholars whose work addresses water as a contested terrain, revealing how rivers, oceans, and wetlands are mobilized in struggles for land, sovereignty, and survival. Through conversations, essays, and artistic contributions, the volume traverses colonial infrastructures, hydropolitical regimes, and submerged histories, while engaging with ancestral knowledge, ecological grief, and diverse forms of cinematic imagination.

With contributions from Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Kabita Chakma, Samari Chakma, Ifor Duncan, Alia Farid, Silvia Franceschini, Bridget Guarasci, Saydia Gulrukh, Langston Hughes, Adelita Husni Bey, Amal Khalaf, Ailton Krenak, Shehrazade Mahassini, Laura Huertas Millán, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Tanzim Wahab.