9 / The Contours of the Amphibious: Wetlands, Knowledge, and Politics in Colombia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. On the Brink
7. 1 / Postnatural Environmental Management in an Amphibious Delta: Hybridity, Performativity, and Indeterminacy at the Salton Sea 29
8. 2 / Between Hydro and Geo: Amphibious Spaces of Social Exception 55
9. 3 / The Shape of Waterland: A Geomorphoanthropological Commentary on Fluvial Infrastructures and Amphibious Environmental Knowledge 76
10. Part II. In the Damp
11. 4 / Keeping the Land Wet: “Wet Lands” and the Rise of “Wetland Literacy” 111
12. 5 / Situating Wetness in Soomaa, Estonia 138
13. 6 / The Hyporheic Imaginary in Multispecies Watershed Governance: How Beaver Collaborations Remix Patterns of Wet and Dry in Northern California Streams 163
14. Part III. Through the Muck
15. 7 / Restoring Wetlands in Alpine Ski Resorts: The Biopolitics of Water, Land, and Snow 195
16. 8 / Muddy Waters: Governing the Littoral in Andros Island, The Bahamas 219
17. 9 / The Contours of the Amphibious: Wetlands, Knowledge, and Politics in Colombia 251
18. Amphibious Epilogue 276
19. List of Contributors 283
20. Index 287
21. Culture, Place, and Nature 293