1st Edition
Riverlands of the Anthropocene Walking Our Waterways as Places of Becoming
By Margaret Somerville
Copyright 2020
222 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene. The book asks how humans can learn through sensory embodied encounters with local waterways that shape the architecture of cities and make global connections with environments everywhere.
The book considers human becomings with urban waterways... Read more
Preface 1. A blue literature review 2. Rivers of the Anthropocene 3. Watery beginnings 4. Walking the songlines of the singing painting river 5. Riverland’s watery ways 6. Bedrock’s sacramental becomings 7. The river’s crossing 8. Global materialities: and the artful excess of river’s litter 9. Regeneration: of trees, weeds and tender intimacies 10. Life and death in the Anthropocene Epilogue
Biography
Margaret Somerville is Professor of Education and the Director of the Centre for Educational Research in the School of Education, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
