Living With Water - Everyday Encounters and Liquid Connections

'This edited collection explores how living, thinking and writing with water can act as a vehicle for exploring emerging and persistent social and ecological issues. The contributions are methodologically and textually diverse, ranging from the personal and confessional to the figurative, theoretical and critical. As a reading experience, it is delightful.'
Karen Throsby, author of Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity and Professor of Gender Studies, University of Leeds

'By diving into this beautifully polymorphous collection of emotional, intoxicating, playful, and daring storytelling, you will be carried away by waves of analysis that will in turn alarm you, send shivers of joy across your skin, prompt deep introspection, and leave you with a deeply embodied sense of contentment.'
> Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on ferry crossings, boat dwelling, sea fishing and wild swimming, and navigating urban rivers, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. By approaching water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, Living with water opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates.

About the author

Charlotte Bates is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Cardiff University
Kate Moles is a Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Moles Bates
• Assisted by: Bates Charlotte (Editor), Kate Moles (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2025
• EAN: 9781526191359
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-9135-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social impact of environmental issues, Sociology & anthropology, Human Geography, Sociology and anthropology, Development and environmental geography