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 drought 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
Table of Content
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 Mc Grath
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
About the author
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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