Water, Creativity and Meaning: Multidisciplinary Understandings of Human-Water Relationships

ISBN-13: 9780367587888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

Liz Roberts; Katherine Phillips

Opis

This stimulating volume brings together diverse approaches to exploring the human relationship with water, and adds to the current zeitgeist of writing about water by expanding the discussion about this vital substance.

Spis treści

Foreword by Veronica Strang  Introduction  Part I: Fluid processes: creative research with water  1. Water Power: Creativity and the Unlocking of Community Knowledge  2. This long river…  3. Sunless Waters of Forgetfulness (a geopoetic assemblage)  4. From Gallura to the Fens: Communities Performing Stories of Water  Part II: Becoming water bodies  5. Mapping a Blue Trace: An Intermittent Swimming Life  6. Creative compulsions: performing surfing as art  7. Waves as Emblemata for Knowledge  Part III: Water we know?  8. Re-envisioning the Hydro Cycle: The Hydrosocial Spiral as a Participatory Toolbox for Water Education and Management  9. Fluid-Sound  10. And all at once the clouds descend, Shed tears that never seem to end. Looking from the Early Modern Age at Water in the Anthropocene  Part IV: When water disrupts: Water as agent and co-constitutor of place and culture  11. ‘Water mafia’ politics and unruly informality in Delhi’s unauthorised colonies  12. Encountering Water: Sensitivities and practices for moving beyond ‘Big Water’ interventions  13. Thinking like Water Moves – Living with Climate Change in Tarawa, Kiribati  14. Narratives that Travel: Anxiety, Affect and Water Politics in the Deschutes Watershed of Central Oregon  15. Conclusion  Afterword: Interview with Matthew Gandy

O autorze

Liz Roberts is a cultural geographer currently working at the University of West of England, UK, on an RCUK project on digital storytelling and water scarcity (www.dryproject.co.uk).

Katherine Phillips is a social researcher at the University of West of England, UK, with interests in sustainable living, human–environment relations and the mainstreaming of radical alternatives.