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Living with water

Everyday encounters and liquid connections

von: Charlotte Bates, Kate Moles
144,99 €
Verlag:	Manchester University Press
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	07.02.2023
ISBN/EAN:	9781526161710
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	296

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Titelbeschreibung

Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing, and draught impacts, and navigating urban waters, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. Water offers a way of attending to emerging and enduring social and ecological concerns and making sense of them in lively and creative ways. By approaching Living with water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and drawing on research from around the world, this collection opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean water and sanitation

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary collection highlights the ways in which water is an irreducible part of the way we live.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword – Jessica J. Lee 1 Living with water – Kate Moles and Charlotte Bates 2 Jo¨kulsa´rlo´n 64°04'13''N 16°12'42''W – Wayne Binitie Float 3 Ryan and Alfie: the teenage fishers – Alys Tomlinson 4 Fereð ofer flodas: floating on a ferry – Eva McGrath 5 Homes, happenings and everyday lives: afloat on London’s waterways – Lorna Flutter 6 Bathed in feeling: water cultures and city life – Les Back 7 River crossings: the mighty London Thames – Sophie Watson 8 Living with/out water: media, memory and gender – Joanne Garde-Hansen Flow 9 How deep is your love? Spurting, surging, leaking and hissing in Calgary’s pressurised drinking water infrastructure – Becky Shaw 10 Rain – Sans façon 11 More than a body of water: disentangling the affective meshwork of the Belize Barrier Reef – Phillip Vannini and April Vannini 12 Shifting tides: Anthropocene entanglements and unravellings in the Bay of Fundy – Aurora Fredriksen 13 Follow the water – Perdita Phillips 14 Glacial erratic – Stephanie Krzywonos Submerge 15 17 bridges – Vanessa Daws 16 Churn – JLM Morton 17 Submerging bodies in cold waters – Charlotte Bates and Kate Moles 18 How to swim without water: swimming as an ecological sensibility – Rebecca Olive 19 I just want an earth of cool mysteries – Samantha Walton 20 Conjuring a swimming pond – Emily Bates Index

Autorenportrait

Charlotte Bates is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Cardiff University Kate Moles is a Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University

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'This edited collection explores how living, thinking and writing with water can act as a vehicle for exploring emerging and persistent social and ecological issues. The contributions are methodologically and textually diverse, ranging from the personal and confessional to the figurative, theoretical and critical. As a reading experience, it is delightful.' Karen Throsby, author of Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity and Professor of Gender Studies, University of Leeds ‘By diving into this beautifully polymorphous collection of emotional, intoxicating, playful, and daring storytelling, you will be carried away by waves of analysis that will in turn alarm you, send shivers of joy across your skin, prompt deep introspection, and leave you with a deeply embodied sense of contentment.’ Clifton Evers, Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies, Newcastle University Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on ferry crossings, boat dwelling, sea fishing and wild swimming, and navigating urban rivers, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. By approaching water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, Living with water opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates.