Awards

• Short-listed for Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize 2018 (Canada)

Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Dorothy Christian ,  Rita Wong
Publisher:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imprint:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781771122139

ISBN 10:   1771122137
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   28 February 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Re-storying Waters, Re-storying Relations / Rita Wong and Dorothy Christian Part I: Contexts for Knowing and Unknowing Water 1. Planetary Distress Signals / Alanna Mitchell 2. Water / Lee Maracle 3. Interweaving Water: The Incremental Transformation of Sovereign Knowledge into Collaborative Knowledge / Michael D. Blackstock 4. Water and Knowledge / Astrida Neimanis 5. Excerpts from """"a child's fable"""" / Baco Ohama Part II: Water Testimonies: Witness, Worry, and Work 6. Water: The First Foundation of Life / Mona Polacca 7. From Our Homelands to the Tar Sands / Melina Laboucan Massimo 8. Keepers of the Water: Nishnaabe-kwewag Speaking for the Water / Renee Elizabeth Mzinegiizhigo-kwe Bedard 9. Water Walk Pedagogy / Violet Caibaiosai 10. A Response to Pascua Lama / Cecilia Vicuna Part III: Shared Ethical and Embodied Practices 11. Moving with Water: Relationship and Responsibilities / Alannah Young Leon and Denise Marie Nadeau 12. Bodies of Water: Meaning in Movement / Seonagh Odhiambo Horne 13. Upstream: A Conversation with Water / Cathy Stubington 14. Ice Receding, Books Reseeding / Basia Irland  15. Tsunami Chant / Wang Ping Part IV: A Respectful Co-existence in Common: Water Perspectives 16. Listening to the Elders at the Keepers of the Water Gathering /Radha D'Souza  17. Coastal Waters in Distress from Excessive Nutrients / Paul J. Harrison 18. Bodies of Water: Asian Canadians In/Action with Water /Janey Lew 19. Permeable Toronto: A Hydro-Eutopia / Janine MacLeod 20. Saturate/Dissolve: Water for Itself, Un-Settler Responsibilities, and Radical Humility / Larissa Lai 21. Bring Me Back / Janet Rogers"

Reviews

Downstream stakes out a bold and creative claim to collaborative and cross-cultural eco-spiritual-neo-traditional knowing and, with it, new approaches to policy and action. A timely read that lends depth and resonance to some of the material and voices [in other books on the subject].--Heather Menzies Literary Reiview of Canada

Downstream stakes out a bold and creative claim to collaborative and cross-cultural eco-spiritual-neo-traditional knowing and, with it, new approaches to policy and action. A timely read that lends depth and resonance to some of the material and voices [in other books on the subject].--Heather Menzies Literary Review of Canada

Author Information

"Dorothy Christian is a visual storyteller from the Secwepemc and Syilx Nations of British Columbia. She is a Ph. D. candidate at UBC's Department of Educational Studies and currently writing her dissertation """"Gathering Knowledge: Visual Storytellers & Indigenous Storywork."""" Publications include chapters in Thinking with Water (Chen et al., eds., 2013) and Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity (Mathur et al., eds., 2011). Rita Wong is an award-winning writer of four books of poetry, her latest titled undercurrent (2015). She is co-editor of downstream: reimagining water (WLU Press 2017), nominated for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, on the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, where she learns from water."

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