8 Mapping Urban Waters: Grounds and Figures on an Ethnographic Water Path

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x
5. Introduction: Waterworlds At Large 1
6. 1 East Anglian Fenland: Water, the Work of Imagination, and the Creation of Value 23
7. 2 Fluid Entitlements: Constructing and Contesting Water Allocations in Burkina Faso, West Africa 46
8. 3 Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological Cycles 75
9. 4 Respect and Passion in a Lagoon in the South Pacific 93
10. 5 West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of Excess 110
11. 6 To the Lighthouse: Making a Liveable World by the Bay of Bengal 129
12. 7 Enacting Groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati: Searching for Facts and Articulating Concerns 141
13. 8 Mapping Urban Waters: Grounds and Figures on an Ethnographic Water Path 162
14. 9 Water Literacy in the Sahel: Understanding Rain and Groundwater 184
15. 10 Deep Time and Shallow Waters: Configurations of an Irrigation Channel in the Andes 203
16. 11 Moral Valves and Fluid Properties: Water Regulation Mechanisms in the Bâdia of South-Eastern Mauritania 219
17. 12 Reflecting Nature: Water Beings in History and Imagination 247
18. 13 The North Water: Life on the Ice Edge in the High Arctic 279
19. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 300
20. INDEX 304