Description
Winner of the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize 2018
downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building peace and good relationships with one another and the planet.
This book explores the key roles that culture, arts, and the humanities play in supporting healthy water-based ecology and provides local, global, and Indigenous perspectives on water that help to guide our societies in a time of global warming. The contributions range from practical to visionary, and each of the four sections closes with a poem to encourage personal freedom along with collective care.
This book contributes to the formation of an intergenerational, culturally inclusive, participatory water ethic. Such an ethic arises from intellectual courage, spiritual responsibilities, practical knowledge, and deep appreciation for human dependence on water for a meaningful quality of life. downstream illuminates how water teaches us interdependence with other humans and living creatures, both near and far.
Author: Dorothy Christian
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 02/24/2017
Pages: 298
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781771122139
ISBN10: 1771122137
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Essays
- Literary Collections | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection | General