What Is Water?: The History of a Modern Abstraction (Nature | History | Society) - Softcover

Linton, Jamie

 
9780774817028: What Is Water?: The History of a Modern Abstraction (Nature | History | Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 077481702X ISBN 13: 9780774817028
Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2010

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We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction – to mere H20 – this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water. An original take on a deceptively complex issue, What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem.

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Jamie Linton is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Queen’s University.

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Jamie Lintondives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H20 - this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water.

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Jamie Lintondives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H20 - this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water.

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Verlag
University of British Columbia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
077481702X
ISBN 13 
9780774817028
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Anzahl der Seiten
352
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