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Jana Kopelent Rehak documents how a sense of place enables Smith Islanders to cope and hope in the face of erosion, sea level rise, aging, and socioeconomic change. This placemaking, constructed with faith, knowledge, memories, relationships, and work, is instructive and timely as changing weather and climate are affecting all communities.
We Live in the Water is both an extraordinarily sensitive work of ethnography and a timely intervention in contemporary debates on climate change, aging, and the challenges that face coastal communities. In lucid prose, Kopelent Rehak provides a moving account of change, community, and hope.
Book Details
Preface
Introduction. The Politics and Poetics of the Weather World
Chapter 1. Weather Is Everything
Chapter 2. Ways of Knowing
Chapter 3. Land and Water
Chapter 4. Shifting Grounds
Chapter 5. Broken Bodies
Preface
Introduction. The Politics and Poetics of the Weather World
Chapter 1. Weather Is Everything
Chapter 2. Ways of Knowing
Chapter 3. Land and Water
Chapter 4. Shifting Grounds
Chapter 5. Broken Bodies
Chapter 6. The Taste of Things and Comic Relief
Chapter 7. The Art of Creative Futures
Epilogue. Ethnographic Poetics
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index