Critical water geographies: Concepts, ontologies and knowledge

This review synthesizes critical and radical water geographies as a multifaceted field that analyses how water is made governable through power, space and everyday life. It traces key conceptual shifts, including critiques of modern water, hydrosocial and territorial approaches, water justice and ontological debates. The review organizes these perspectives around recurring domains of debate, encompassing urbanization and political economy, infrastructure geopolitics, social reproduction and (in)security and the knowledge practices through which water problems are rendered visible and actionable. In doing so, the article illustrates how adjacent arenas complicate the field beyond urban and domestic water alone, concluding with a concise agenda for future radical research and praxis.