1st Edition
Water Lore Practice, Place and Poetics
Foreword: ‘Salt Water Kin’
Jill Jones
Introduction: Flux and Change
Claudia Egerer and Camille Roulière
PART I
Water Stories
1. Sapphire stories: Disenchantment and sense of wonder in the underwater world
Karin Dirke
2. Imaginings of water: Anthropocene waters and the entanglement of the living
Claudia Egerer
3. The blue anthropocene and the oceanic south: Reading containerisation and inundation diffractively
Meg Samuelson
4. Poetic economies of Walden: Keeping current(cy)
Diane P Freedman
5. Salt, water and sound: Translations from the Murray Mouth
Camille Roulière
6. The wild edge: A language for coastal landscapes
Nicole Larkin
Part II
Water law and lore
7. The WaterLore project: Mapping the sacred in cultural waters
Gini Lee
8. Te Mana o te Wai: Relating to and through the charisma of water
Dan Hikuroa and Billie Lythberg
9. Divining
Stephen Muecke
10. Water remembers: Drowning colonialism and swimming in wealth
Brandy Nālani McDougall
11. The weight of river stones
Ali Gumillya Baker, Faye Rosas Blanch and Simone Ulalka Tur
Part III
(Re)imagining waters
12. Call-and-response writing on water
Louise Boscacci and Pip Newling
13. Fresh water, salt water: Socially engaged art, collaboration and the environment
Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein
14. Storied matter
Deborah Wardle
15. New perspectives on water significance: Joining art and science to communicate water ecology
Anastasia Tyurina
16. I am phytoplankton
Kassandra Bossell
Afterword: ‘if we stand…’
Em König
Biography
Camille Roulière is an early-career researcher and creative writer whose work focuses on spatial poetics. She was recently awarded a University Doctoral Research Medal for her PhD thesis entitled "Visions of Water in Lower Murray Country" (The University of Adelaide).
Claudia Egerer is Associate Professor of Literature and Environmental Humanities in the Department of English at Stockholm University, Sweden. Both her research and teaching engage in rethinking the place of the human and the humanities in the Anthropocene. She is co-founder of the Environmental Humanities Network at Stockholm University and the research school in the Environmental Humanities at Stockholm University.
