Water lore : practice, place and poetics
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Water lore : practice, place and poetics
（Routledge environmental humanities）（Earthscan from Routledge）
Routledge, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Located within the field of environmental humanities, this volume engages with one of the most pressing contemporary environmental challenges of our time: how can we shift our understanding and realign what water means to us? Water is increasingly at the centre of scientific and public debates about climate change. In these debates, rising sea levels compete against desertification; hurricanes and floods follow periods of prolonged drought. As we continue to pollute, canalise and desalinate waters, the ambiguous nature of our relationship with these entities becomes visible. From the paradisiac and pristine scenery of holiday postcards through to the devastated landscapes of post-tsunami news reports, images of waters surround us. And while we continue to damage what most sustains us, collective precarity grows.
Breaking down disciplinary boundaries, with contributions from scholars in the visual arts, history, earth systems, anthropology, architecture, literature and creative writing, archaeology and music, this edited collection creates space for less-prominent perspectives, with many authors coming from female, Indigenous and LGBTQIA+ contexts. Combining established and emerging voices, and practice-led research and critical scholarship, the book explores water across its scientific, symbolic, material, imaginary, practical and aesthetic dimensions. It examines and interrogates our cultural construction and representation of water and, through original research and theory, suggests ways in which we can reframe the dialogue to create a better relationship with water sources in diverse contexts and geographies.
This expansive book brings together key emerging scholarship on water persona and agency and would be an ideal supplementary text for discussions on the blue humanities, climate change, environmental anthropology and environmental history.
Table of Contents
Foreword: 'Salt Water Kin'
Jill Jones
Introduction: Flux and Change
Claudia Egerer and Camille Rouliere
PART I
Water Stories
1. Sapphire stories: Disenchantment and sense of wonder in the underwater world
Karin Dirke
2. Imaginings of water: Anthropocene waters and the entanglement of the living
Claudia Egerer
3. The blue anthropocene and the oceanic south: Reading containerisation and inundation diffractively
Meg Samuelson
4. Poetic economies of Walden: Keeping current(cy)
Diane P Freedman
5. Salt, water and sound: Translations from the Murray Mouth
Camille Rouliere
6. The wild edge: A language for coastal landscapes
Nicole Larkin
Part II
Water law and lore
7. The WaterLore project: Mapping the sacred in cultural waters
Gini Lee
8. Te Mana o te Wai: Relating to and through the charisma of water
Dan Hikuroa and Billie Lythberg
9. Divining
Stephen Muecke
10. Water remembers: Drowning colonialism and swimming in wealth
Brandy Nalani McDougall
11. The weight of river stones
Ali Gumillya Baker, Faye Rosas Blanch and Simone Ulalka Tur
Part III
(Re)imagining waters
12. Call-and-response writing on water
Louise Boscacci and Pip Newling
13. Fresh water, salt water: Socially engaged art, collaboration and the environment
Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein
14. Storied matter
Deborah Wardle
15. New perspectives on water significance: Joining art and science to communicate water ecology
Anastasia Tyurina
16. I am phytoplankton
Kassandra Bossell
Afterword: 'if we stand...'
Em Koenig
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