“An exploration of the relationship between water’s cultural meanings and urgent ecological issues.”
McGill-Queens Press has its fall catalogue out and it includes a new book Thinking with Water, which has this companion website describing the project.
Here is the publisher’s description of the book:
“An exploration of the relationship between water’s cultural meanings and urgent ecological issues.”
Water is often studied only as a “resource,” a quantifiable and instrumentalized substance. Thinking with Water instead invites readers to consider how water – with its potent symbolic power, its familiarity, and its unique physical and chemical properties – is a lively collaborator in our ways of knowing and acting. What emerges is both a rich opportunity to encourage more thoughtful environmental engagement and a challenge to common oppositions between…
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