8 Irrigated Gardens of the Indus River Basin: Toward a Cultural Model for Water Resource Management

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Lists of Figures and Maps ix
4. PREFACE xi
5. Introduction: Hydrohumanities 1
6. PART I Agency of Water
7. Introduction 17
8. 1 The Agency of Water and the Canal du Midi 23
9. 2 Winnipeg’s Aspirational Port and the Future of Arctic Shipping (The Geo-Cultural Version) 42
10. 3 Radical Water 64
11. PART II Fluid Identities
12. Introduction 89
13. 4 Water, Extractivism, Biopolitics, and Latin American Indigeneity in Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos and Potdevin’s Palabrero 95
14. 5 Water as the Medium of Measurement: Mapping Global Oceans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 118
15. 6 Aquapelagic Malolos: Island-Water Imaginaries in Coastal Bulacan, Philippines 141
16. PART III Cultural Currencies
17. Introduction 159
18. 7 The Invisible Sinking Surface: Hydrogeology, Fieldwork, and Photography in California 165
19. 8 Irrigated Gardens of the Indus River Basin: Toward a Cultural Model for Water Resource Management 190
20. 9 Leadership in Principle: Uniting Nations to Recognize the Cultural Value of Water 215
21. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 243
22. CONTRIBUTOR BIOS 245
23. Index 249