Contents
I. Immersions: From Water Imaginaries to Wild Swimming
Introduction: Robert Boschman and Sonya Jakubec
1 Water Imagination in Anthropology: On Plant Healing Matters
2 Aquatic Insights from Roger Deakin’s Waterlog
II. Formations: Water as LifeBlood
Introduction: Robert Boschman and Sonya Jakubec
3 Water Formations, Water Neutrality, and Water Shutoffs: Posthumanism in the Wake of Racial Slavery
4 When Water Isn’t Life: Environmental Justice Denied
5 Indigenous Stories and the Fraser River: Intercultural Dialogue for Public Decision-Making
III. Histories: On Four Continents
Introduction: Robert Boschman and Sonya Jakubec
9 A Tale of Two Watersheds in the Mackenzie River Basin: Linking Land Use Planning to the Hydroscape
IV. Interventions: Thinking and Being with Water
Introduction: Robert Boschman and Sonya Jakubec
10 On Not Having Invented the Wheel: A Meditation on Invention, Land, and Water
11 Instructions for Being Water: A Performance Score
V. Responses: Two Canadian Community Models
Introduction: Robert Boschman and Sonya Jakubec
13 Ghost Story: A Community Organizing Model of Changemaking
14 The New Thunderbirds: The Waters of Uranium City, Saskatchewan
VI. Implementation: An Engineering Application for Global Climate Change
Introduction: Robert Boschman and Sonya Jakubec