As a life-giving but also potentially destructive substance, water occupies a prominent place in the imagination. At the same time, water issues are among the most troubling ecological and social concerns of our time. Water is often studied only as a "resource," a quantifiable and instrumentalized substance. Thinking with Water instead invites readers to consider how water - with its potent symbolic power, its familiarity, and its unique physical and chemical properties - is a lively collaborator in our ways of knowing and acting. What emerges is both a rich opportunity to encourage more thoughtful environmental engagement and a challenge to common oppositions between nature and culture. Drawing from a pool of Contributors with diverse backgrounds, Thinking with Water presents the work of critics, scholars, artists, and poets in an invitation to pay more attention to the aqueous aspects of our lives. Contributors include: Ælab (Gisèle Trudel, UQÀM and Stéphane Claude, Oboro), Stacy Alaimo (University of Texas at Arlington), Andrew Biro (Acadia University), Mielle Chandler (York University), Cecilia Chen (Concordia University), Dorothy Christian (University of British Columbia), Adam Dickinson (poet, Brock University), Max Haiven (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), Janine MacLeod (York University), Daphne Marlatt (poet, British Columbia), Don McKay (poet, Newfoundland), Emily Rose Michaud (Artist, Wakefield, Qc.), Astrida Neimanis (Linköping University), Sarah Renshaw (artist, Rhode Island), Shirley Roburn (Concordia University), Melanie Siebert (poet, University of Victoria), Jennifer B. Spiegel (Concordia University), Veronica Strang (Durham, UK), Rae Staseson (Concordia University), Rita Wong (Emily Carr University of Art and Design), and Peter C. van Wyck (Concordia University).
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-333) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2013.
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 553.7
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- 9780773541795 9780773589339
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- T55 2013eb
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 351 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Table of Contents 6
- List of Poems and Credits 8
- Plates and Figures 10
- Acknowledgments 14
- Introduction: Toward a Hydrological Turn? 18
- Water Drawing (Version 1.0) (2010) 38
- Light, Sweet, Cold, Dark, Crude (LSCDC) a Cycle of Audiovisual Micro-Events (2006–ongoing) 44
- Generation, Generations at the Mouth 53
- Water and the Material Imagination: Reading the Sea of Memory against the Flows of Capital 55
- Water and Gestationality: What Flows beneath Ethics 76
- Subterranean Flows: Water Contamination and the Politics of Visibility after the Bhopal Disaster 99
- Water is Siwlkw 119
- Sounding a Sea-Change: Acoustic Ecology and Arctic Ocean Governance 121
- Frozen Refractions: Text and Image Projections on Ice (2010) 144
- Taste the $ource (While Supplies Last) (2006–Present) 150
- Jellyfish Science, Jellyfish Aesthetics: Posthuman Reconfigurations of the Sensible 154
- Alsek Lake 180
- River-Adaptiveness in a Globalized World 181
- Conceptual Relations: Water, Ideologies, and Theoretical Subversions 200
- Erratics 227
- The Dammed of the Earth: Reading the Mega-Dam for the Political Unconscious of Globalization 228
- Untapping Watershed Mind 247
- Pond 269
- Footbridge at Atwater: A Chorographic Inventory of Effects 271
- Mapping Waters: Thinking with Watery Places 289
- Appendix of Place Names 314
- Works Referenced 316
- Contributors 350
- Index 358
