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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813982603321

Autore

Chen Cecilia

Titolo

Thinking with water / / edited by Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod, Astrida Neimanis ; contributor Elab Gisl̈e Trudel [and twenty-two others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, Québec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-7735-8934-1

0-7735-8933-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages) : illustrations (some colour)

Disciplina

553.7

Soggetti

Water

Water - Social aspects

Water - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Poems and Credits; Plates and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward a Hydrological Turn? ; Water Drawing (Version 1.0) (2010); Light, Sweet, Cold, Dark, Crude (LSCDC) a Cycle of Audiovisual Micro-Events (2006-ongoing) ; Generation, Generations at the Mouth; Water and the Material Imagination: Reading the Sea of Memory against the Flows of Capital; Water and Gestationality: What Flows beneath Ethics; Subterranean Flows: Water Contamination and the Politics of Visibility after the Bhopal Disaster; Water is Siwlkw.

Sounding a Sea-Change: Acoustic Ecology and Arctic Ocean GovernanceFrozen Refractions: Text and Image Projections on Ice (2010); Taste the ource (While Supplies Last) (2006-Present); Jellyfish Science, Jellyfish Aesthetics: Posthuman Reconfigurations of the Sensible; Alsek Lake; River-Adaptiveness in a Globalized World; Conceptual Relations: Water, Ideologies, and Theoretical Subversions; Erratics; The Dammed of the Earth: Reading the Mega-Dam for the Political Unconscious of Globalization; Untapping Watershed Mind; Pond; Footbridge at Atwater: A Chorographic Inventory of Effects.

Mapping Waters: Thinking with Watery PlacesAppendix of Place Names;



Works Referenced; Contributors; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of the relationship between water's cultural meanings and urgent ecological issues.