What Is Water? - Jamie Linton

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Résumé :
We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. Because it seems so natural, we seldom question how we see water. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water.
Jamie Linton dives into the history of the modern concept of water, that water can be stripped of its wider environmental, social, and cultural contexts and reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H₂0. This abstraction has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with impunity, giving rise to a growing suite of problems. Linton argues that part of the solution to the water crisis involves deliberately reinvesting water with social content....

Biographie:
Foreword: Making Waves / Graeme WynnPrefacePart 1: Introduction1 Fixing the Flow: The Things We Make of Water2 Relational Dialectics: Putting Things in Fluid TermsPart 2: The History of Modern Water3 Intimations of Modern Water4 From Premodern Waters to Modern Water5 The Hydrologic Cycle(s): Scientific and Sacred6 The Hortonian Hydrologic Cycle7 Reading the Resource: Modern Water, the Hydrologic Cycle, and the Stat8 Culmination: Global WaterPart 3: The Constitutional Crisis of Modern Water9 The Constitution of Modern Water10 Modern Water in Crisis11 Sustaining Modern Water: The New Global Water RegimePart 4: Conclusion: What Becomes of Water12 HydrolecticsNotesBibliographyIndex...

Sommaire:
Jamie Linton is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Queen's University....