Theory of Water
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Theory of Water

Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead

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eBook - ePub

Theory of Water

Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead

About this book

A genre-bending exploration of that most elemental force—water—through Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took solace in skiing—in 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 experience—and 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 planet—one 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

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. 1 When It Was Icy, I Could Fly
  5. 2 Nibi
  6. 3 Listening in Our Present Moment
  7. 4 Sintering
  8. 5 Gizhiigokwe and Chi’Mikinak
  9. 6 Mappings of the Liminal
  10. 7 Un-mappings Leading to Everywhere and Nowhere
  11. 8 Pinery Road and Concession 11
  12. 9 “Where My Mother Held Me”
  13. 10 Agaming: On the Shore
  14. 11 Bullfrogs, Cattails and Water Lilies
  15. 12 “Remembering Where It Used to Be”
  16. 13 Maps to Statelessness
  17. 14 “All of Them Carrying Yesterday”
  18. 15 Gizhewaadiziwin
  19. 16 Flowing
  20. 17 Aabijijiwan, Continual Flowing
  21. 18 Recapturing
  22. 19 Seeing the Forest from the Lake
  23. 20 Being a River
  24. 21 Stone Canoes, Nigigoonsiwag and Seeing Through Stone
  25. 22 The One That Cleans the World
  26. 23 A Theory of Water
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Notes
  29. Credits
  30. Back Cover