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oapen-20.500.12657-301622024-03-25T09:51:14Z Virtuous Waters Walsh, Casey commodity infrastructure water culture bathing history of science mexico political ecology water mineral springs artesian wells Hot spring thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNA Environmentalist thought and ideology Virtuous Waters is a pathbreaking and innovative study of bathing, drinking and other everyday engagements with a wide range of waters across five centuries in Mexico. Casey Walsh uses political ecology to bring together an analysis of shifting scientific, religious and political understandings of waters and a material history of social formations, environments, and infrastructures. The book shows that while modern concepts and infrastructures have come to dominate both the hydrosphere and the scholarly literature on water, longstanding popular understandings and engagements with these heterogeneous liquids have been reproduced as part of the same process. Attention to these dynamics can help us comprehend and confront the water crisis that is coming to a head in the twenty-first century. 2018-05-08 00:00:00 2020-04-01T12:46:47Z 2020-04-01T12:46:47Z 2018 book 649675 OCN: 1028980325 9780520965393 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30162 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 649675.pdf https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.48 University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.48 10.1525/luminos.48 72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b 9780520965393 226 Oakland open access
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Virtuous Waters is a pathbreaking and innovative study of bathing, drinking and other everyday engagements with a wide range of waters across five centuries in Mexico. Casey Walsh uses political ecology to bring together an analysis of shifting scientific, religious and political understandings of waters and a material history of social formations, environments, and infrastructures. The book shows that while modern concepts and infrastructures have come to dominate both the hydrosphere and the scholarly literature on water, longstanding popular understandings and engagements with these heterogeneous liquids have been reproduced as part of the same process. Attention to these dynamics can help us comprehend and confront the water crisis that is coming to a head in the twenty-first century.
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