Kim De Wolff (Editor)
Rina C. Faletti (Editor)
Ignacio López-Calvo (Editor)
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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Article
Asayama, Shinichiro;
Ishii, Atsushi;
(2014)
Reconstruction of the Boundary between Climate Science and Politics: The IPCC in the Japanese Mass Media, 1988--2007
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Article
Giuseppe Capelli;
Alessio Argentieri;
(2018)
La stazione idrometrografica dell’Ovito (Monti Carseolani, Appennino Centrale). Da un’idea innovativa, una grande avventura
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Article
Gupta, Joyeeta;
(2010)
A History of International Climate Change Policy
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Article
Giacomo Parrinello;
(2017)
Charting the Flow: Water Science and State Hydrography in the Po Watershed, 1872-1917
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Book
Kristian Karlo Saguin;
(2022)
Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier
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Article
Christoff, Peter;
(2013)
Climate Discourse Complexes, National Climate Regimes and Australian Climate Policy
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Article
Carse, Ashley;
(2012)
Nature as Infrastructure: Making and Managing the Panama Canal Watershed
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Book
Arturo Calzona;
Daniela Lamberini;
(2010)
La civiltà delle acque tra Medioevo e Quattrocento
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Chapter
Roberto Greci;
(2010)
Le città navigabili. I progetti dell'età comunale
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Thesis
Li, Cho-ying;
(2007)
Evolutionary Statecraft: The Ming State and Local Elites in the Field ofHydrological Management in the Lower Yangtze Delta
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Chapter
Susan B. Butters;
(2010)
Princely Waters: An Elemental Look at the Medici Dukes
(/isis/citation/CBB189835818/)
Chapter
Lorenzo Altissimo;
(2019)
Nuove frontiere del ciclo idrico integrato: problemi emergenti e ipotesi sul futuro
(/isis/citation/CBB914508642/)
Article
Robinson, M;
Rodda, J C;
Sutcliffe, J V;
(2013)
Long-Term Environmental Monitoring in the UK: Origins And Achievements of the Plynlimon Catchment Study
(/isis/citation/CBB001421519/)
Article
Yali Li;
Gideon Shelach-Lavi;
Ronnie Ellenblum;
(2019)
Short-Term Climatic Catastrophes and the Collapse of the Liao Dynasty (907–1125): Textual Evidence
(/isis/citation/CBB169928251/)
Article
Swyngedouw, Erik;
(2014)
“Not a Drop of Water...”: State, Modernity and the Production of Nature in Spain, 1898--2010
(/isis/citation/CBB001421405/)
Chapter
Cristina Baldacci;
(2022)
Acque and Mud: Stratification as a Metaphor of Time (Maria Morganti)
(/isis/citation/CBB237379879/)
Essay Review
Yearley, Steven;
Mercer, David;
Pitman, Andy;
Oreskes, Naomi;
Conway, Erik;
(2012)
Perspectives on Global Warming
(/isis/citation/CBB001500133/)
Chapter
Elena Longhin;
(2022)
Barene and Petrochemicals: The Landscapes of Porto Marghera
(/isis/citation/CBB013846017/)
Article
Myanna Lahsen;
(September 2016)
Toward a Sustainable Future Earth: Challenges for a Research Agenda
(/isis/citation/CBB813960256/)
Article
Iva Peša;
(2022)
A Planetary Anthropocene? Views From Africa
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