Signs of Water : Community Perspectives on Water, Responsibility, and Hope

This book is concerned with community responses to water issues. In the f ifteen chapters gathered here, contributors from multiple perspectives and disciplines from around the world weigh in on water: how it flows through human life in specific locations. Fifteen of the twenty-one writers gathered here are women; and all the research and documentation concern water at the community level, stemming from fieldwork, art, and collaborative experience across the Americas as well as in the EU, Africa, and Asia. Many contributors have worked in and studied particular communities and their relationships to water—with respect to, for example, access, facilitation, health, history, and politics—from rural northwest Cameroon to South Africa, the U.K., Japan, Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Canada. They also record the histories of a number of major river basins, including the Upper Xingu (Brazil), the Fraser (British Columbia), the Tambraparni (South India), the Mackenzie (Northwest Territories), and the St. Lawrence (Quebec). Most are deeply engaged with Indigenous communities struggling with a wide range of overlapping issues relating.

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