Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: The Lived Experience of Water
7. Introduction 9
8. Rain Queen 12
9. 1 Water Gaia: Towards a Scientific Phenomenology of Water 13
10. 2 Flow Motions and Kinethic Responsiveness 27
11. 3 Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet 42
12. 4 When Salmon Are Deemed Superfluous: Reflecting on a Struggle of Stories 57
13. Part Two: Water and Place
14. Introduction 75
15. 5 The Place of Water 79
16. 6 Engaging the Water Monster of Amsterdam: Meandering Towards a Fair Urban Riversphere 91
17. 7 Water and the City: Towards an Ethos of Fluid Urbanism 114
18. 8 What We’re Talking about When We’re Talking about Water: Race, Imperial Politics, and Ruination in Flint, Michigan 133
19. Part Three: Rethinking Water Policy, Practice, and Ethics
20. Introduction 147
21. 9 The Bonding Properties of Water: Community, Urban River Restoration, and Non-human Agency 151
22. 10 Standing Rock: Water Protectors in a Time of Failed Policy 171
23. 11 Phenomenology, Water Policy, and the Conception of the Polis 197
24. 12 Towards a Complexity Ethics: Understanding and Action on Behalf of Life-World Well-Being 213
25. Part Four: Closing Reflections
26. Conclusion – Looking Forward: From Poetics to Praxis 237
27. The Lure of Water: Four Poems 241
28. Contributors 249
29. Index 253