Aesthetic Criticism

Fig. 1. 'The book seems like a kind of almanac pertaining to certain historical phenomena,' from Tim Harrington and Robert Sullivan, Gowanus Redux, 7/17/2012.

FeatureJuly 28, 2016

Re-imagining the River: The Transformation of New York’s Waterways in Marie Lorenz’s Tide and Current Taxi.

For more than ten years, artist Marie Lorenz has been creating a work of art called the Tide and Current Taxi. For this project, Lorenz transports one to four passengers along the myriad waterways of New York City (and occasionally other destinations) in a small boat made by the artist.

Ursula Biemann, video still from Deep Weather (2013). Aerial shot of the Northern Alberta oil sands. Courtesy of the artist.

FeatureJuly 28, 2016

Liquid Economies, Networks of the Anthropocene

A constant flow of watery images streams through our newsfeeds almost daily. Videos, infographics, animations, flow charts, and various other forms of visual communication tell us that water is either in excess or retreat, revealing that we have too much or too little.

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Seth Eastman, Distant View of Fort Snelling, 1847-49. Watercolor.

IntroductionJuly 28, 2016

Guest Editors’ Introduction to Issue Three

Water is a slippery subject: its visual and material properties spur intellectual inquiry and spiritual reverie; its fluctuating form repels categorization and confounds claims of ownership as it crosses property lines and national borders; and river and ocean currents facilitate commercial exchange along with environmental exploitation.

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Detail of 'Otokaheya' (In the Beginning), quilted fabric, Gwen Westerman, artist. Image courtesy of the artist.

FeatureJuly 28, 2016

Depicting the Power of Water in Art and Poetry

Open Rivers guest editors Nenette Luarca-Shoaf and Laura Turner Igoe contacted Gwen Westerman, professor, visual artist, and an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate.

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Issue Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Issue 21

We refer to the issue as “Women & Water: Calling” because collectively these articles demonstrate the ways that water calls to people, drawing women...

By Laurie Moberg

Feature

Mariners, Makers, Matriarchs: Changing Relationships Between Coast Salish Women & Water

Historically, Coast Salish female identity depended upon water. Waterways provided women with countless economic opportunities, fostered family ties, created plentiful food sources, and encouraged...

By Alexandra M. Peck

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Collaboration for a Common Goal

We seek to tell a story that demonstrates how combining a common goal with compromise and deliberate action leads to creative solutions and meaningful...

By Mollie Aronowitz, Jennifer Terry, Ruth McCabe, and Mary Beth Stevenson

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How the River Moves Us: Women Speak Their Story

As a work of social choreography, Niimikaage is meant to listen to the movement of the Mississippi River through the lives of people connected...

By Victoria Bradford Styrbicki

Geographies

Floodplains and Hurricanes: Mapping Natural Disasters to Uncover Vulnerable Communities

Using GIS mapping, I can identify at-risk communities most impacted by water-related natural disasters in the Houston Metropolitan Area (HMA), which is highly susceptible...

By Kristin Osiecki

In Review

On Rivers, Women, and Canoes

Open Rivers contacted Natalie Warren, author of Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic, to talk about her...

By Natalie Warren and Phyllis Mauch Messenger

Perspectives (Peer Review)

The Summit of STEM: Navigating the Uneven Terrain

Endless hours writing and analyzing samples in the lab was not the most difficult part of graduate school, however. It was walking into a...

By Ayooluwateso Coker

Perspectives

Water as Weapon: Gender and WASH

The association between WASH services and gendered vulnerability to violence in rural locales and urban slums in developing countries has received the most study,...

By Becky L. Jacobs

Perspectives

Women Landowners and the Language of Partnership Needed for Water Quality Change

In the Midwest, women landowners are one of the most powerful populations who can effect real change in water quality. Their potential, however, has...

By Linda Shenk, Jean Eells, and Wren Almitra

Primary Sources

Time and Trauma

Through interviews, surveys and focus group discussions with 258 households in Mathare during 2016 and 2017, I found that women faced huge challenges and...

By Anindita Sarkar

Teaching and Practice (Peer Review)

Co-creating a Learning Refugia by Walking Alone and Together

With more-than-human mentors as teachers and guides, we ask of ourselves, and each of you readers: What does it mean to know a place...

By Marijke Hecht, Michelle King, and Shimira Williams

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