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Title Water, creativity and meaning : multidisciplinary understandings of human-water relationships / edited by Liz Roberts and Katherine Phillips
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2019

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Earthscan studies in water resource management
Earthscan studies in water resource management.
Contents Water power : creativity and the unlocking of community knowledge / Lorraine Leeson -- This long river / Luci Gorrell Barnes -- Sunless waters of forgetfulness (a geopoetic assemblage) / Antony Lyons -- From gallura to the fens : communities performing stories of water / Lyndsey Bakewell, Antonia Liguori and Michael Wilson -- Mapping a blue trace : an intermittent swimming life / Ronan Foley -- Creative compulsions : performing surfing as art / Jon Anderson and Lyndsey Stoodley -- Waves as emblemata for knowledge / John Hartley -- Re-envisioning the hydro cycle : the hydrosocial spiral as a participatory toolbox for water education and management / Rebecca L. Farnum, Ruth Macdougall, and Charlie Thompson -- Fluid-sound / Rob St John -- And all at once the clouds descend, shed tears that never seem to end : looking from the early modern age at water in the anthropocene / Simon Meisch -- "Water mafia" politics and unruly informality in Delhi's unauthorised colonies / Matt Birkinshaw -- Encountering water : sensitivities and practices for moving beyond "big water" interventions / Claire Hoolohan and Alison L. Browne -- Thinking like water moves : living with climate change in Tarawa, Kiribati / Maria Louise Bønnelykke -- Narratives that travel : anxiety, affect and water politics in the Deschutes Watershed of Central Oregon / Kirsten Rudestam -- Conclusion / Liz Roberts and Katherine Phillips -- Afterword : interview with Matthew Gandy
Summary At a time of great turmoil and crisis, environmentally, socially and politically, water has emerged as a topic of huge global concern. Moreover, many argue that what is needed in order to change our relationship with the environment is a cultural paradigm shift. To this end, this volume brings together diverse approaches to exploring human relationships with the watery world and the other living things that rely upon it. Through exploring multiple creative ways of engaging with water and people, the volume adds to the current zeitgeist of writing about water by expanding the discussion about this vital substance and how, as humans, we relate to it. Chapters focus on creative explorations and explorations of creativity in relation to developing these understandings, including concepts such as hydrocitizenship and responses to drought and flooding. Drawing on the in-depth research and experience of arts practitioners including participatory artists, as well as academics from a variety of fields including geography, anthropology, health studies and environmental humanities, the book provides a rich and multidisciplinary perspective on water and creative ways of engaging and understanding human-water relationships. It represents a valuable source and inspiration for academics, arts practitioners and those involved in environmental policy and governance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record; title from PDF title page, viewed (08/28/2020)
Subject Water -- Social aspects
Hydrologic cycle.
Water-supply.
Water security.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Hydrology.
Hydrologic cycle
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Water security
Water -- Social aspects
Water-supply
Form Electronic book
Author Roberts, Liz (Elisabeth), editor.
Phillips, Katherine, 1980- editor.
LC no. 2020691585
ISBN 9781315110356
1315110350
9781351615808
1351615807
9781351615815
1351615815
9781351615792
1351615793