Jamie Linton

What Is Water?

The History of a Modern Abstraction

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Produktbeschreibung

Jamie Lintondives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H20 - this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 163mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9780774817011
• ISBN-10: 0774817011
• Artikelnr.: 41607452

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Making Waves / Graeme Wynn
Preface
Part 1: Introduction
1 Fixing the Flow: The Things We Make of Water
2 Relational Dialectics: Putting Things in Fluid Terms
Part 2: The History of Modern Water
3 Intimations of Modern Water
4 From Premodern Waters to Modern Water
5 The Hydrologic Cycle(s): Scientific and Sacred
6 The Hortonian Hydrologic Cycle
7 Reading the Resource: Modern Water, the Hydrologic Cycle, and the Stat
8 Culmination: Global Water
Part 3: The Constitutional Crisis of Modern Water
9 The Constitution of Modern Water
10 Modern Water in Crisis
11 Sustaining Modern Water: The New "Global Water Regime"
Part 4: Conclusion: What Becomes of Water
12 Hydrolectics
Notes
Bibliography
Index