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• Title:Water in social imagination : from technological optimism to contemporary environmentalism / edited by Jane Costlow, Yrjo Haila, Arja Rosenholm.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Costlow, Jane T. (Jane Tussey), 1955- editor.
  Haila, Yrjö, editor.
  Rosenholm, Arja, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017]
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: CB482 .W43 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Water and civilization.
  Water in literature.
  Ecocriticism.
  
• Description:xii, 284 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Nature, culture and literature ; 12.
  
• Summary:Water in Social Imagination' considers how human communities have known, imagined and shaped water - and how water has shaped both material culture and the imagination. Essays from diverse perspectives offer histories of water at different scales - from community water wells and sacred springs to Siberian rivers and the regulated space of the Baltic Sea. From early modernization through Soviet style technological optimism to contemporary environmentalism, water's ideological uses are multiple. With sustained attention not just to state policy and the technologies of high modernity, but to creative resistance to utilitarian imaginations, these essays insist on fluidities of meaning, ambiguities that derive both from water's physical mutability and from its dual nature as life necessity and agent of destruction.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9789004333260 hardcover acid-free paper
  9004333266 hardcover acid-free paper
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Knowing Water: An Introduction / Arja Rosenholm
  2. Liquid Scale: Trans-Scalar Thinking and the Perception of Water / Scott Slovic
  3. Water and Urban Space in Late Medieval Stockholm / Maija Ojala
  4. Many Roles of the Dynamic Danube in Early Modern Europe: Representations in Contemporary Sources / Verena Winiwarter
  5. Water, Space, and Desire in Soviet Fiction: The Case of Konstantin Paustovsky / Arja Rosenholm
  6. Interplay of Water, Home, and Narration in Uberfahrt by Anna Seghers / Withold Bonner
  7. River in Thaw-era Soviet Popular Song (1954-1970): The Formation of an Amicable Space / Maria Litovskaya
  8. "The Sovereign of the River and the Sovereign of All Nature
  -in the Same Trap" / Mika Perkiomaki
  9. Pollution of the Baltic Sea: A Mirror Image of Modernization / Nina Tynkkynen
  10. Deep Waters of Literary Theme. Nature, Narrative, and Identity in Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna / Markku Lehtimaki
  11. Journey to the Bottom of the Sea. Water Myths and Risk Society in Veronica Pimenoff's Risteilijat / Toni Lahtinen
  12. "It was only a tiny spring": Veneration, Value and Local Springs in Contemporary Russia / Jane Costlow
  13. Securing Water: Ambiguities of Control vs. Coexistence / Yrjo Haila.