Thinking with Water

Description

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. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Poems and Credits Plates and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Hydrological Turn? Water Drawing (Version 1.0) (2010) Light, Sweet, Cold, Dark, Crude (LSCDC) a Cycle of Audiovisual Micro-Events (2006–ongoing) Generation, Generations at the Mouth Water and the Material Imagination: Reading the Sea of Memory against the Flows of Capital Water and Gestationality: What Flows beneath Ethics Subterranean Flows: Water Contamination and the Politics of Visibility after the Bhopal Disaster Water is Siwlkw Sounding a Sea-Change: Acoustic Ecology and Arctic Ocean Governance Frozen Refractions: Text and Image Projections on Ice (2010) Taste the $ource (While Supplies Last) (2006–Present) Jellyfish Science, Jellyfish Aesthetics: Posthuman Reconfigurations of the Sensible Alsek Lake River-Adaptiveness in a Globalized World Conceptual Relations: Water, Ideologies, and Theoretical Subversions Erratics The Dammed of the Earth: Reading the Mega-Dam for the Political Unconscious of Globalization Untapping Watershed Mind Pond Footbridge at Atwater: A Chorographic Inventory of Effects Mapping Waters: Thinking with Watery Places Appendix of Place Names Works Referenced Contributors Index