{"product_id":"hydronarratives-9781496227898","title":"Hydronarratives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on creative responses to intensifying water crises in the United States, \u003ci\u003eHydronarratives\u003c\/i\u003e explores how narrative and storytelling support environmental justice advocacy in Black, Indigenous, and low-income communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These studies should enrich the discussion of how to prepare communities to grapple with energy and climate challenges in an equitable way.\"—E. Gomezdelcampo, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHydronarratives\u003c\/i\u003e is, above all, an argument for the urgent need to look for, identify, and produce future-looking stories about a just transition as a key metric to calling this future into being.\"—Anne Stewart, H-Environment\u003cbr\u003e“Original, well researched, and current. \u003ci\u003eHydronarratives\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to the field of environmental justice and creates a clear connection between artistic imagination—film, museums, photography, sculpture, and literature—and broad social change. Matthew Henry’s book is broadly and impressively grounded in theoretical, journalistic, and political conversations. He deftly demonstrates the connections between these sources and the vital work of reimagining our future.”—David T. Sumner, professor of English and environmental studies at Linfield University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHydronarratives\u003c\/i\u003e is poised to make a valuable contribution to the field—specifically regarding cultural studies—with its inclusion of contemporary politics and hopeful futures. The discussion of racial capitalism in particular is thoroughly detailed as it pertains to water issues in key U.S. cities and regions. Complicated and controversial works are analyzed with elegance and care throughout.”—Kathryn Cornell Dolan, author of \u003ci\u003eCattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Storying Water and Justice\u003cbr\u003e 1. Decolonizing Drought: Indigenous Collective Continuance in the Lower Colorado River Basin\u003cbr\u003e 2. Freedom Dreams for Flint: Imagining a Just Transition beyond Racial Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Extractive Fictions and Post-Extraction Futurisms: Energy, Water, and Environmental Justice in Appalachia\u003cbr\u003e 4. On the Wrong Side of the Levee: Sea Level Rise Narratives in the Decade of the Green New Deal \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Imagining a Community-Driven Just Transition in Wyoming\u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409237025111,"sku":"9781496227898","price":69.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496227898.jpg?v=1730506087","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hydronarratives-9781496227898","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}