Water, Creativity and Meaning : Multidisciplinary understandings of human-water relationships / edited by Liz Roberts and Katherine Phillips.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roberts, Liz (Elisabeth), editor.

Phillips, Katherine, 1980- editor.

Series:

Earthscan studies in water resource management.

Earthscan studies in water resource management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water--Social aspects.

Water.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Water-supply.

Water security.

Hydrologic cycle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, [2018].

Summary:

At a time of great turmoil and crisis, environmentally, socially and politically, water has emerged as a topic of huge global concern. Moreover, manyargue that what is needed in order tochange our relationship with the environment is a cultural paradigm shift. To this end, this volume brings together diverse approaches to exploring human relationships with the watery world and the other living things that rely upon it. Through exploring multiple creative ways of engaging with water and people, the volume adds to the current zeitgeist of writing about water by expanding thediscussion about this vital substance and how, as humans, we relate to it.Chapters focuson creative explorations and explorations of creativity in relation to developing these understandings, including concepts such as hydrocitizenship and responses to drought and flooding. Drawing on the in-depth research and experience of arts practitioners including participatory artists, as well as academics from a variety of fields including geography, anthropology, health studies and environmental humanities, the book provides a rich and multidisciplinaryperspective onwater and creative ways of engaging and understanding human–water relationships.It representsa valuablesource and inspirationfor academics, arts practitioners and those involved in environmental policy and governance.

Contents:

Water power : creativity and the unlocking of community knowledge / Lorraine Leeson

This long river / Luci Gorrell Barnes

Sunless waters of forgetfulness (a geopoetic assemblage) / Antony Lyons

From gallura to the fens : communities performing stories of water / Lyndsey Bakewell, Antonia Liguori and Michael Wilson

Mapping a blue trace : an intermittent swimming life / Ronan Foley

Creative compulsions : performing surfing as art / Jon Anderso

Waves as emblemata for knowledge / John Hartley

Re-envisioning the hydro cycle : the hydrosocial spiral as a participatory toolbox for water education and management / Rebecca L. Farnum, Ruth Macdougall, and Charlie Thompson

Fluid-sound / Rob St John

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 / Simon Meisch

"Water mafia" politics and unruly informality in Delhi's unauthorised colonies / Matt Birkinshaw

Encountering water : sensitivities and practices for moving beyond "big water" interventions / Claire Hoolohan and Alison L. Browne

Thinking like water moves : living with climate change in Tarawa, Kiribati / Maria Louise Bønnelykke

Narratives that travel : anxiety, affect and water politics in the Deschutes Watershed of Central Oregon / Kirsten Rudestam

Conclusion / Liz Roberts and Katherine Phillips

Afterword : interview with Matthew Gandy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781351615815

1351615815

9781351615808

1351615807

9781315110356

1315110350

OCLC:

1049150413