Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part One -- 1: Introduction -- The direction and purpose: New Materialities -- Materiality/Material culture/New Materialities -- Why water? -- People: bodies and water -- Agency -- 2: Water Behaviours: A Brief Ethnography of Water -- What is water? -- First light, then water -- Being liquid: physics, classifications, breaking the law and transformation -- How can one know water? Liquid behaviours -- The importance of movement: molecular sociology -- Solvents and solutions -- But how does water move? Circles, cycles and snakes -- The earth and the air -- Water: the shape of life, and when water is human -- 3: Resource or Source?: How to Approach Water in the Time of Climate Change -- Part Two -- 4: Introduction -- 5: The Giriama in Kenya: Living with Drought -- Water practices: rain, roofs, rivers and water basins -- Head carrying: water shaping gendered bodies -- Giriama conceptions of water -- Fu ha mwenga: fluidity and identity -- Watery identities -- Identity solutions: blending place, power and water -- MaKaya: home from home -- Giriama waters and authenticity: understanding the materiality of water -- 6: Lanjaron, Spain -- Slow water: glaciers, ice and snow -- The Moorish influence: hydrologers -- Invisible waters -- Not all waters are equal -- Mineral water: healing and destruction -- Change: festivities and water -- The ritual -- 7: Welsh Water: The Resourcefulness of Water -- Establishing Welsh water: then and now -- The language of water -- Discourses on deluge -- |