Signs of water : : community perspectives on water, responsibility, and hope / / edited by Robert Boschman, Sonya L. Jakubec.

• VerfasserIn: Jakubec, Sonya L.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Jakubec, Sonya L.,; Boschman, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Calgary, Alberta : : University of Calgary Press,, 2022.
• 出版年: 2022
• 語言: English
• 實物描述: 1 online resource (xv, 421 pages)
• 提示: MRU author.

" A global exploration of water, bringing together academics and experts from five continents to illuminate the many issues facing the world's most important resource. Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly controversial in direct proportion to its scarcity, demand, neglect, and commodification. There is no place on the planet where water is not, or will not be, of critical concern. Signs of Water brings together scholars and experts from five continents in an interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical approaches, social and political issues, and anthropogenic hazards surrounding water in the twenty-first century. From the kitchen taps of Detroit, Michigan to the water-harvesting infrastructure of Tokyo, from India's Trambraparni River to the Upper Xingu Basin of Brazil to the Sunda Deep of the Java Trench, these essays flow through time and place to uncover the many issues surrounding water today. Asking key theoretical questions, exposing threats to vital water systems, and proposing paths forward, Signs of Water brims with histories, ontologies, and political struggles. Bringing together local experiences to tell a global story, it centers water as history, as politics, and as a human right."-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

I. Immersions : from water imaginaries to wild swimming. Water imagination in anthropology : on plant healing matters Aquatic insights from Roger Deakin's Waterlog II. Formations : water as lifeblood. Water formations, water neutrality, and water shutoffs : posthumanism in the wake of racial slavery When water isn't life : environmental justice denied Indigenous stories and the Fraser River : intercultural dialogue for public decision-making III. Histories : on four continents. Unexpected connections? Water security, law, social inequality, disrespect for cultural diversity, and environmental degradation in the Upper Xingu Basin Community-based natural resources management in sub-Sahara Africa : barriers to sustainable community water supply management in nothwest Cameroon Taming the Tambraparni River : reservoirs, hydro-electric power generation, and raising fish in south India A tale of two watersheds in the Mackenzie River Basin : linking land use planning to the hydroscape IV. Interventions : thinking and being with water. On not having invented the wheel : a meditation on invention, land, and water Instructions for being water : a performance score The red alert project V. Responses : two Canadian community models. Ghost story : a community organizing model of changemaking The new thunderbirds : the waters of Uranium City, Saskatchewan VI. Implementation : an engineering application for global climate change. Large-scale water harvesting : an application model in the time of accelerating global climate change.