Living with Water : Everyday Encounters and Liquid Connections

This interdisciplinary collection highlights the ways in which water is an irreducible part of the way we live. -- . Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing, and drought impacts, and navigating urban waters, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. Water offers a way of attending to emerging and enduring social and ecological concerns and making sense of them in lively and creative ways. By approaching Living with water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and drawing on research from around the world, this collection opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean water and sanitation Front Matter Contents List of figures List of contributors Foreword Living with water Jökulsárlón 64°04ʹ13ʺN 16°12ʹ42ʺW Float Ryan and Alfie: the teenage fishers Fereð ofer flodas: floating on a ferry Homes, happenings and everyday lives: afloat on London’s waterways Bathed in feeling: water cultures and city life River crossings: the mighty London Thames Living with/out water: media, memory and gender Flow How deep is your love? Spurting, surging, leaking and hissing in Calgary’s pressurised drinking water infrastructure Rain More than a body of water: disentangling the affective meshwork of the Belize Barrier Reef Shifting tides: Anthropocene entanglements and unravellings in the Bay of Fundy Follow the water Glacial erratic Submerge 17 bridges Churn Submerging bodies in cold waters How to swim without water: swimming as an ecological sensibility I just want an earth of cool mysteries Conjuring a swimming pond Index