Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures

Open Access Veröffentlicht von University of California Press 2021

Hydrohumanities

Water Discourse and Environmental Futures

Herausgegeben von: Kim De Wolff , Rina C. Faletti und Ignacio López-Calvo

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Discourse about water and power in the modern era have largely focused on human power over water: who gets to own and control a limited resource that has incredible economic potential. As a result, discussion of water, even in the humanities, has traditionally focused on fresh water for human use. Today, climate extremes from drought to flooding are forcing humanities scholars to reimagine water discourse.

This volume exemplifies how interdisciplinary cultural approaches can transform water conversations. The manuscript is organized into three emergent themes in water studies: agency of water, fluid identities, and cultural currencies. The first section deals with the properties of water and the ways in which water challenges human plans for control. The second section explores how water (or lack of it) shapes human collective and individual identities. The third engages notions of value and circulation to think about how water has been managed and employed for local, national, and international gains. Contributions come from preeminent as well as emerging voices across humanities fields including history, art history, philosophy, and science and technology studies. Part of a bigger goal for shaping the environmental humanities, the book broadens the concept of water to include not just water in oceans and rivers but also in pipes, ice floes, marshes, bottles, dams, and more. Each piece shows how humanities scholarship has world-changing potential to achieve more just water futures.

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Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	i
CONTENTS Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	vii
Lists of Figures and Maps Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	ix
PREFACE Ruth Mostern Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	xi
Introduction: Hydrohumanities Kim De Wolff und Rina C. Faletti Open Access PDF downloaden	1
PART I Agency of Water
Introduction Open Access PDF downloaden	17
1 The Agency of Water and the Canal du Midi Chandra Mukerji Open Access PDF downloaden	23
2 Winnipeg’s Aspirational Port and the Future of Arctic Shipping (The Geo-Cultural Version) Stephanie C. Kane Open Access PDF downloaden	42
3 Radical Water Irene J. Klaver Open Access PDF downloaden	64
PART II Fluid Identities
Introduction Open Access PDF downloaden	89
4 Water, Extractivism, Biopolitics, and Latin American Indigeneity in Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos and Potdevin’s Palabrero Ignacio López-Calvo und Hugo Alberto López Chavolla Open Access PDF downloaden	95
5 Water as the Medium of Measurement: Mapping Global Oceans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Penelope K. Hardy Open Access PDF downloaden	118
6 Aquapelagic Malolos: Island-Water Imaginaries in Coastal Bulacan, Philippines Kale Bantigue Fajardo Open Access PDF downloaden	141
PART III Cultural Currencies
Introduction Open Access PDF downloaden	159
7 The Invisible Sinking Surface: Hydrogeology, Fieldwork, and Photography in California Rina C. Faletti Open Access PDF downloaden	165
8 Irrigated Gardens of the Indus River Basin: Toward a Cultural Model for Water Resource Management James L. Wescoat Jr. und Abubakr Muhammad Open Access PDF downloaden	190
9 Leadership in Principle: Uniting Nations to Recognize the Cultural Value of Water Veronica Strang Open Access PDF downloaden	215
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Open Access PDF downloaden	243
CONTRIBUTOR BIOS Open Access PDF downloaden	245
Index Open Access PDF downloaden	249

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: University of California Press
Copyrightjahr: 2021
Seiten
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Veröffentlicht: 21. Dezember 2021
ISBN: 9780520380462