About this issue
On Water showcases the range of disciplines and methodological approaches that are brought together at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Water has many different guises—as a resource it can be bottled, dammed, and polluted; as a natural hazard it terrorizes with floods and big freezes; becalmed, water can also serve as a mirror to show us how our understanding of the natural environment is formed. In this volume, nine scholars affiliated with the RCC present their research in the fields of history, philosophy, literary studies, geography, and cultural studies.
How to cite: Kneitz, Agnes, and Marc Landry (eds.), “On Water: Perceptions, Politics, Perils,” RCC Perspectives 2012, no 2. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5590.
Content
- Introduction by Agnes Kneitz and Marc Landry
Perceptions: Environmental Knowledge and Knowledge Societies
- Water as White Coal by Marc Landry
- Snakey Waters, or: How Marine Biology Structured Global Environmental Sciences by Franziska Torma
- Shaped by the Imagination: Myths of Water, Women, and Purity by Eleanor Ruth Hayman
Politics: Transformation of Landscapes
- Dammed Water: Water as a National Commodity by Ewald Blocher
- Rising Waters: Submersion and Survival in Yung Chang’s Up the Yangtze by Alexa Weik von Mossner
- The Domestication of Ice and Cold: The Ice Palace in Saint Petersburg 1740 by Julia Herzberg
Perils: Natural Disasters and Cultures of Risk
- The Perils of Water: Floods, Droughts, and Pollution as Natural Hazards and Cultural Challenges by Felix Mauch
- Polluted Water by Agnes Kneitz
- Sustainable Water by Wolfram Mauser
