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oapen-20.500.12657-436932021-01-25T13:51:09Z Virtuous Waters Walsh, Casey Social Science Anthropology General Science Earth Sciences General History Historical Geography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RB Earth sciences bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTP Historical geography 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. 2020-12-15T13:50:26Z 2020-12-15T13:50:26Z 2018 book 9780520291737 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43693 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf University of California Press University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.48 649675.0 10.1525/luminos.48 72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780520291737 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) University of California Press Knowledge Unlatched 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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