Signs of Water: Community Perspectives on Water, Responsibility, and Hope (Arts in Action, 3) - Softcover

Robert Boschman (editor); Sonya L. Jakubec (editor) D120

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1773852345 ISBN 13: 9781773852348

Publisher: University of Calgary Press, 2022

Synopsis

Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly controversial in direct proportion to its scarcity, demand, neglect, and commodification. There is no place on the planet where water is not, or will not be, of critical concern.

Signs of Water brings together scholars and experts from five continents in an interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical approaches, social and political issues, and anthropogenic hazards surrounding water in the twenty-first century. From the kitchen taps of Detroit, Michigan to the water-harvesting infrastructure of Tokyo, from India's Trambraparni River to the Upper Xingu Basin of Brazil to the Sunda Deep of the Java Trench, these essays flow through time and place to uncover the many issues surrounding water today.

Asking key theoretical questions, exposing threats to vital water systems, and proposing paths forward, Signs of Water brims with histories, ontologies, and political struggles. Bringing together local experiences to tell a global story, it centers water as history, as politics, and as a human right.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Boschman is Professor of American Literature and the Environmental Humanities at Mount Royal University, where he chairs the Department of English, Languages, and Cultures.

Sonya Jakubec is a Registered Nurse and Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Mount Royal University, where she teaches and researches community mental health and the health-environment connection.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1773852345
• ISBN 13: 9781773852348
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464