Jim Ellis is Professor of English and Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities at the University of Calgary. He has written widely on art, literatue and film. Helen Knott is a Dane Zaa, Nehiyaw, and mixed Euro-descent woman living in Fort St. John, British Columbia. In 2016 Helen was one of sixteen global change makers featured by the Nobel Women's Initiative for being committed to end gender-based violence. Helen was selected as a 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author. This is her first book.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking our Relations to Water Jim Ellis Embodying Kinship Responsibilities In and Through Nipi (Water) Michelle Daigle Petrography and Water: Artist's Statement and Portfolio Warren Cariou Women, Water, Land: Writing from the Intersections Helen Knott Tanya Hartnett: The Poetics and Politics of Scarred/Sacred Water Nancy Tousley Y2Y: Conserving Headwaters Jodi Hilty, Aerin Jacob, Hilary Young, Kelly Zenkewich Elbow River Watershed Partnership Flora Giesbrecht Confluence: Artist's Statement and Portfolio Leslie Sweder Indigenous Water Rights and Global Warming in Alberta David K. Laidlaw Watershed+: Rethinking Pulblic Art Ciara McKeown Swimming in Systems JosA (c)e MA (c)thot and Amy Spark Glorie A l'Eau (Glory to Water) by Alberta Tessier Charles Tepperman Water Rights/Water Justice Adrian Parr Appendix A: UN Declaration on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation Appendix B: UN Declaration the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Water Rights is an insightful, moving, beautiful book. Melding the scholarly with the narrative and the artistic, the volume provides a unique contribution to the literature around water security and well-being. --Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Great Plains Research Visually cohesive and elegant . . . recommended for anyone seeking to environmental studies work with Native perspectives and instructors looking for holistic approaches to environmental issues. --Ellen Ahlness, Electronic Green Journal Interspersed with full-colour photographs, maps, and artwork, the chapters from fourteen contributors address a wonderfully wide range of water-related topics . . . By incorporating narratives documenting both pressing problems and collaborative solutions, the volume presents the reader with both a sense of urgency and the possibility of justice and change, bringing us one step closer to reimagining water in the west. --Zander Albertson, BC Studies