Book ID: CBB259222431

Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures (2021)

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Kim De Wolff (Editor)
Rina C. Faletti (Editor)
Ignacio López-Calvo (Editor)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 270
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Parrinello, Giacomo
Cristina Baldacci
Li, Yali
Altissimo, Lorenzo
Susan B. Butters
Iva Peša
Concepts
Science and politics
Water resource management
Climate change
Environmental history
Science and government
Hydrography
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Medieval
Renaissance
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Places
Italy
China
Venice (Italy)
Po River
Manila (Philippines)
Congo
Institutions
International Council for Science
Future Earth. Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production Knowledge-Action Network
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