Water rites reimagining water in the west

What are the challenges surrounding water in Western Canada? What are our rights to water? Does water itself have rights? Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West documents the many ways that water flows through our lives, connecting the humans, animals, and plants that all depend on this precious...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ellis, Jim (Editor), Ellis, Jim, editor (editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Calgary University of Calgary Press 2018
Calgary, Alberta : [2018]
Series:Calgary Institute for the Humanities series.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009672522606719
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • contents
  • acknowledgements
  • rethinking our relations to water
  • embodying kinship responsibilities in & through nipi (water)
  • petrography & water: artist’s statement & portfolio
  • women, water, land: writing from the intersections
  • tanya harnett: the poetics & politics of scarred/sacred water
  • Y2Y: conserving headwaters
  • the elbow river watershed partnership
  • confluence: artist’s statement & portfolio
  • Indigenous water rights & global warming in alberta
  • watershed+: rethinking public art
  • swimming in systems
  • glory to water gloire à l’eau
  • water rights/water justice
  • UN declaration on the human right to water & sanitation
  • UN declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples
  • contributors