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To mark World Water Day, please join us on March 21st, from 7-9 PM, for the exciting book launch of Thinking with Water at Librairie Formats.
On the same day, from 4:30-6:30pm, there will also be a Water Walkshop! Engage your sense of water and walk along urban shores with us on a semi-guided tour of river rapids, urban water infrastructures, and post-industrial transformation. See the details here
As a life-giving but also potentially destructive substance, water occupies a prominent place in the imagination. At the same time, water issues are among the most troubling ecological and social concerns of our time.
Water is often studied only as a "resource," a quantifiable and instrumentalized substance. Thinking with Water instead invites readers to consider how water - with its potent symbolic power, its familiarity, and its unique physical and chemical properties - is a lively collaborator in our ways of knowing and acting. What emerges is both a rich opportunity to encourage more thoughtful environmental engagement and a challenge to common oppositions between nature and culture.
Drawing from a pool of contributors with diverse backgrounds, Thinking with Water presents the work of critics, scholars, artists, and poets in an invitation to pay more attention to the aqueous aspects of our lives.