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

Linton, Jamie

University of British Columbia Press（2010/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 352 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780774817011
• DDC分類 553.7

Full Description

We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. Because it seems so natural, we seldom question how we see water. 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 the modern concept of water, that water can be stripped of its wider environmental, social, and cultural contexts and reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H20. This abstraction has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with impunity, giving rise to a growing suite of problems. Linton argues that part of the solution to the water crisis involves deliberately reinvesting water with social content.

Contents

Foreword: Making Waves / 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 Stat

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