Titre : |
What is water ? : the history of a modern abstraction |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Jamie Linton, Auteur |
Editeur : |
Vancouver : UBC Press |
Année de publication : |
2010 |
Collection : |
Nature/history/society, ISSN 1713-6680 |
Importance : |
333 p. |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-7748-1701-1 |
Prix : |
30 EUR |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Index. décimale : |
333.7 Environnement et développement durable |
Résumé : |
D'après l'éditeur : "Every water issue is a social issue. And yet, in contrast to almost every other culture, we define water in the modern West as a substance entirely devoid of social content. How is it that we have come to think of water in this way, as an abstract compound of hydrogen and oxygen, and what are the consequences ?
These questions underlie Jamie Linton’s What is Water ?, a history of the particular way of conceptualizing water that predominated in the twentieth century. In this wide-ranging study, Linton shows how scientific practice, the modern state, technology, and politics produced an idea of water that helped permit its manipulation and control on a vast scale, with corresponding effects on human society. That much of the world is engulfed today in what many describe as a "water crisis" suggests the need to rethink the nature of water. By reinvesting water with social content -- by considering water’s social nature -- Linton suggests a fresh approach to a fundamental problem. " |
Note de contenu : |
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Foreword / Graeme Wynn
Preface
Part 1: Introduction
1 Fixing the Flow: The Things We Make of Water
2 Relational Dialectics: Putting Things in Fluid Terms
Part 2: The History of Modern Water
3 Intimations of Modern Water
4 From Premodern Waters to Modern Water
5 The Hydrologic Cycle(s): Scientific and Sacred
6 The Hortonian Hydrologic Cycle
7 Reading the Resource: Modern Water, the Hydrologic Cycle, and the State
8 Culmination: Global Water
Part 3: The Constitutional Crisis of Modern Water
9 The Constitution of Modern Water
10 Modern Water in Crisis
11 Sustaining Modern Water: The New “Global Water Regime”
Part 4: Conclusion: What Becomes of Water
12 Hydrolectics
Notes
Bibliography
Index |
What is water ? : the history of a modern abstraction [texte imprimé] / Jamie Linton, Auteur . - Vancouver : UBC Press, 2010 . - 333 p.. - ( Nature/history/society, ISSN 1713-6680) . ISBN : 978-0-7748-1701-1 : 30 EUR Langues : Anglais ( eng)
Index. décimale : |
333.7 Environnement et développement durable |
Résumé : |
D'après l'éditeur : "Every water issue is a social issue. And yet, in contrast to almost every other culture, we define water in the modern West as a substance entirely devoid of social content. How is it that we have come to think of water in this way, as an abstract compound of hydrogen and oxygen, and what are the consequences ?
These questions underlie Jamie Linton’s What is Water ?, a history of the particular way of conceptualizing water that predominated in the twentieth century. In this wide-ranging study, Linton shows how scientific practice, the modern state, technology, and politics produced an idea of water that helped permit its manipulation and control on a vast scale, with corresponding effects on human society. That much of the world is engulfed today in what many describe as a "water crisis" suggests the need to rethink the nature of water. By reinvesting water with social content -- by considering water’s social nature -- Linton suggests a fresh approach to a fundamental problem. " |
Note de contenu : |
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Foreword / Graeme Wynn
Preface
Part 1: Introduction
1 Fixing the Flow: The Things We Make of Water
2 Relational Dialectics: Putting Things in Fluid Terms
Part 2: The History of Modern Water
3 Intimations of Modern Water
4 From Premodern Waters to Modern Water
5 The Hydrologic Cycle(s): Scientific and Sacred
6 The Hortonian Hydrologic Cycle
7 Reading the Resource: Modern Water, the Hydrologic Cycle, and the State
8 Culmination: Global Water
Part 3: The Constitutional Crisis of Modern Water
9 The Constitution of Modern Water
10 Modern Water in Crisis
11 Sustaining Modern Water: The New “Global Water Regime”
Part 4: Conclusion: What Becomes of Water
12 Hydrolectics
Notes
Bibliography
Index |
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