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About this book
A genre-bending exploration of that most elemental forceâwaterâthrough Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took solace in skiingâin all kinds of weather, on all kinds of snow across all kinds of terrain, often following the trail beside a beloved creek near her home. Recently, as she skied on this path against the backdrop of uncertainty, environmental devastation, rising authoritarianism and ongoing social injustice, her mind turned to the water in the creek and an elemental question: What might it mean to truly listen to water? To know water? To exist with and alongside water? So began a quest to understand her people's historical, cultural, and ongoing interactions with water in all its forms (ice, snow, rain, perspiration, breath). Pulling together these threads, Leanne began to see how a "Theory of Water" might suggest a radical rethinking of relationships between beings and forces in the world today. In this inventive work, Simpson draws on Nishnaabeg origin stories while artfully weaving the work of influential writers and artists alongside her personal memories and experienceâand in doing so, reimagines water as a catalyst for radical transformation, capable of birthing a new world. Theory of Water is a resonant exploration of an intricate, multi-layered relationship with the most abundant element on our planetâone that, as Simpson eloquently shows, is shaping our present even as it demands a radical rethinking of how we might achieve a just future.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1 When It Was Icy, I Could Fly
- 2 Nibi
- 3 Listening in Our Present Moment
- 4 Sintering
- 5 Gizhiigokwe and ChiâMikinak
- 6 Mappings of the Liminal
- 7 Un-mappings Leading to Everywhere and Nowhere
- 8 Pinery Road and Concession 11
- 9 âWhere My Mother Held Meâ
- 10 Agaming: On the Shore
- 11 Bullfrogs, Cattails and Water Lilies
- 12 âRemembering Where It Used to Beâ
- 13 Maps to Statelessness
- 14 âAll of Them Carrying Yesterdayâ
- 15 Gizhewaadiziwin
- 16 Flowing
- 17 Aabijijiwan, Continual Flowing
- 18 Recapturing
- 19 Seeing the Forest from the Lake
- 20 Being a River
- 21 Stone Canoes, Nigigoonsiwag and Seeing Through Stone
- 22 The One That Cleans the World
- 23 A Theory of Water
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Credits
- Back Cover