Thinking with Water

Emphasizing the role that vivid personalities – including engineers John Laing Weller and Alex Grant as well as contractors and labourers – played in the construction of the canal, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor use archival sources, government documents, newspapers, maps, and original plans to describe a saga of technological, financial, geographical, and social obstacles met and overcome in an accomplishment akin to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A story of Canadian skill, courage, vision, and hardship, This Colossal Project details the twenty-year excavation of the giant channel and the creation of huge concrete locks amidst war, the Great Depression, political change, and labour unrest.
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Thinking with Water

Emphasizing the role that vivid personalities – including engineers John Laing Weller and Alex Grant as well as contractors and labourers – played in the construction of the canal, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor use archival sources, government documents, newspapers, maps, and original plans to describe a saga of technological, financial, geographical, and social obstacles met and overcome in an accomplishment akin to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A story of Canadian skill, courage, vision, and hardship, This Colossal Project details the twenty-year excavation of the giant channel and the creation of huge concrete locks amidst war, the Great Depression, political change, and labour unrest.
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Thinking with Water

Thinking with Water

Thinking with Water

Thinking with Water

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Emphasizing the role that vivid personalities – including engineers John Laing Weller and Alex Grant as well as contractors and labourers – played in the construction of the canal, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor use archival sources, government documents, newspapers, maps, and original plans to describe a saga of technological, financial, geographical, and social obstacles met and overcome in an accomplishment akin to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A story of Canadian skill, courage, vision, and hardship, This Colossal Project details the twenty-year excavation of the giant channel and the creation of huge concrete locks amidst war, the Great Depression, political change, and labour unrest.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780773541801
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date: 10/10/2013
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 9.40(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author


Cecilia Chen is a senior architect in Montreal. Janine MacLeod is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Astrida Neimanis is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Table of Contents

List of Poems and Credits vii

Plates and Figures ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction Cecilia Chen Janine MacLeod Astrida Neimanis 3

Water Drawing (version 1.0) (2010) Rae Staseson 23

light, sweet, cold, dark, crude (2006-ongoing) AElab (GisèleTrudel and Stéphane Claude) 29

generation, generations at the mouth Daphne Marlatt 38

Water and the Material Imagination: Reading the Sea of Memory against the Flows of Capital Janine MacLeod 40

Water and Gestationality: What Flows beneath Ethics Mielle Chandler Astrida Neimanis 61

Subterranean Flows: Water Contamination and the Politics of Visibility after the Bhopal Disaster Jennifer Beth Spiegel 84

Water is Siwlkw Jeannette Armstrong 104

Sounding a Sea-Change: Acoustic Ecology and Arctic Ocean Governance Shirley Roburn 106

Frozen Refractions: Text and Image Projections on Ice (2010) Sarah T. Renshaw 129

Taste the Source (while supplies last) (2006-present) Emily Rose Michaud 133

Jellyfish Science, Jellyfish Aesthetics: Posthuman Reconfigurations of the Sensible Stacy Alaimo 139

Alsek Lake Melanie Siebert 165

River-Adaptiveness in a Globalized World Andrew Biro 166

Conceptual Relations: Water, Ideologies, and Theoretical Subversions Veronica Strang 185

Erratics Adam Dickinson 212

The Dammed of the Earth: Reading the Mega-Dam for the Political Unconscious of Globalization Max Haiven 213

Untapping Watershed Mind Dorothy Christian Rita Wong 232

Pond Don McKay 254

Footbridge at Atwater: A Chorographic Inventory of Effects Peter C. van Wyck 256

Mapping Waters: Thinking with Watery Places Cecilia Chen 274

Appendix of Place Names 299

Works Referenced 301

Contributors 335

Index 343

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