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The Wonder of Water
Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic (Edited by)
9781487524036
Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2019
280 pages, 5 figures
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.44 kg
"It is no accident that The Wonder of Water starts and ends with poetry. While it is an academic and rigorous compilation, most of its contributors infuse their prose with expressive admiration of water’s foundational and life-affirming properties in a way that’s wonder inducing indeed." "The twelve chapters of The Wonder of Water pin-point Stefanovic’s ethical and moral concerns in relation to water, the landscapes of water, and places associated with water, whether river, bay, sea, or otherwise. As editor, her aim is to incorporate thinking that highlights ‘the genuine meaning of water in its visceral quality, its vitality and its primordiality.’"
Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impacts of climate change. From taken-for-granted values and perceptions to embodied, existential modes of engaging our world, human perspectives impact decision-making and behaviour. The Wonder of Water explores how human experience – including our cultural paradigms, value systems, and personal biases – impacts decisions around water. In many ways, the volume expands on the growing field of water ethics to include questions around environmental aesthetics, psychology, and ontology. And yet this book is not simply for philosophers. On the contrary, a specific aim is to explore how more informed philosophical dialogue will lead to more insightful public policies and practices. Case studies describe specific architectural and planning decisions, fisheries policies, urban ecological restorations, and more. The overarching phenomenological perspective, however, means that these discussions emerge within a sensibility that recognizes the foundational significance of human embodiment, culture, language, worldviews, and, ultimately, moral attunement to place.
List of Figures Introduction Part One: The Lived Experience of Water Rain Queen 1. Water Gaia: Toward a Scientific Phenomenology of Water 2. Flow Motions and Kinethic Responsiveness 3. Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet 4. When Salmon Are Deemed Superfluous: Reflecting on a Struggle of Stories Part Two: Water and Place 5. The Place of Water 6. Engaging the Water Monster of Amsterdam: Meandering Toward a Fair Urban Riversphere 7. Water and the City: Towards an Ethos of Fluid Urbanism 8. What We’re Talking about When We’re Talking about Water: Race, Imperial Politics, and Ruination in Flint, Michigan Part Three: Rethinking Water Policy, Practice, and Ethics 9. The Bonding Properties of Water: Community, Urban River Restoration, and Non-human Agency 10. Standing Rock: Water Protectors in a Time of Failed Policy 11. Phenomenology, Water Policy, and the Conception of the Polis 12. Towards a Complexity Ethics: Understanding and Action on Behalf of Life-World Well-Being Part Four: Closing Reflections Conclusion: Looking Forward: From Poetics to Praxis The Lure of Water: Four Poems List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Kirby Manià, Simon Fraser University
Stephan Harding, Schumacher College
Stephen J. Smith, Simon Fraser University
David Abram, Author and Cultural Ecologist
Martin Lee Mueller, Rudolf Steiner University College, Oslo
Janet Donohoe, University of West Georgia
Irene Klaver, University of North Texas
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Simon Fraser University
Sarah King, Grand Rapids University
Bryan Bannon, Merrimack College
Trish Glazebrook, Washington State University and Jeff Gessas, University of North Texas
Henry Dicks, Université Jean Moulin, France
Robert Mugerauer, University of Washington
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Simon Fraser University
Dilys Leman, Toronto
Index