Description: We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. 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 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. What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem. Jamie Linton is a SSHRC postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography at Queen's University.
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EAN: 9780774817028
UPC: 9780774817028
ISBN: 9780774817028
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Book Title: What Is Water?: The History of a Modern Abstractio
Item Length: 22.6 cm
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: What Is Water?: the History of a Modern Abstraction
Language: English
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Geography & Geosciences, Science, Management
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 580 g
Author: Jamie Linton
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Nature | History | Society
Format: Paperback
