What Is Water?: The History of a Modern Abstraction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774817011)

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.

Author: Jamie Linton
ISBN-10: 0774817011
ISBN-13: 9780774817011
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2010
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 80