What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction / Jamie Linton ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.
Linton, Jamie.
2010
GB665 .L56 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction / Jamie Linton ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.
Author
Linton, Jamie.
ISBN
9780774817028 (pbk.)
9780774817011
0774817011
Publication Details
Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number
GB665 .L56 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
553.7
Summary
"We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural con texts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H[subscript 2]O - 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. What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Nature, history, society.
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Fixing the flow : the things we make of water
Relational dynamics : putting things in fluid terms
Intimations of modern water
From premodern waters to modern water
The hydrologic cycle(s) : scientific and sacred
The Hortonian hydrologic cycle
Reading the resource : modern water, the hydrologic cycle, and the state
Culmination : global water
The constitution of modern water
Modern water in crisis
Sustaining modern water : the new "global water regime"
Hydrolectics.

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