Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2021

Hydrohumanities

Water Discourse and Environmental Futures

Edited by: Kim De Wolff , Rina C. Faletti and Ignacio López-Calvo

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520380462

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

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 270

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Published: December 21, 2021
ISBN: 9780520380462