Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures - Couverture souple

De Wolff, Kim; Faletti, Rina C.; López-Calvo, Ignacio

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520380452 ISBN 13 : 9780520380455

Editeur : University of California Press, 2021

Synopsis

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Discourse about water and power in the modern era have largely focused on human power over water: who gets to own and control a limited resource that has incredible economic potential. As a result, discussion of water, even in the humanities, has traditionally focused on fresh water for human use. Today, climate extremes from drought to flooding are forcing humanities scholars to reimagine water discourse.

This volume exemplifies how interdisciplinary cultural approaches can transform water conversations. The manuscript is organized into three emergent themes in water studies: agency of water, fluid identities, and cultural currencies. The first section deals with the properties of water and the ways in which water challenges human plans for control. The second section explores how water (or lack of it) shapes human collective and individual identities. The third engages notions of value and circulation to think about how water has been managed and employed for local, national, and international gains. Contributions come from preeminent as well as emerging voices across humanities fields including history, art history, philosophy, and science and technology studies. Part of a bigger goal for shaping the environmental humanities, the book broadens the concept of water to include not just water in oceans and rivers but also in pipes, ice floes, marshes, bottles, dams, and more. Each piece shows how humanities scholarship has world-changing potential to achieve more just water futures.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kim De Wolff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas.

Rina C. Faletti is an exhibition curator and researcher in the Global Arts Studies Program at the University of California, Merced.

Ignacio López-Calvo is UC Merced Presidential Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Latin American Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520380452
• ISBN 13: 9780520380455
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 270
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible