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University College Cork
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Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.17613/MTVM-V517
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.16995/OLH.228
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 05-2013
Abstract: In the context of the global water crisis, we seek an understanding of the histories of water management, their fashioning, and their legacy today. We juxtapose temporally erse narratives to explore the premodern imaginings that have shaped our inheritance of hydrological thought. Rather than conceptualize their historical influence as a linear progression of ideas, from the primitive and magical giving way to modern religions and then to rational and empiricist sciences, we suggest a fluidity of hydrological thought whereby the sacred and the profane eddy and flow together over time. This article attempts to navigate these currents through an examination of how Western religious and scientific, spiritual and instrumentalist, worlds of water have together guided hydrological imaginings and interventions for more than two thousand years. It specifically analyzes the deployment of these imaginings to frame efforts to control water and waterscapes, as well as bodies and societies since antiquity. The interactions of these worlds of water have produced, we contend, a vast reservoir of influence upon water management in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.16995/OLH.443
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.17613/M6R20N
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.17613/M6Q482
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.17613/M6747B
Publisher: Stockholm University Press
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.16993/RL.54
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.17613/M68180
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
Date: 27-09-2023
DOI: 10.16995/NTN.10318
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.17613/M6BV2M
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.17613/M6GP1R
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.17613/M6SC2T
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.17613/M6ZN24
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 28-03-2019
Abstract: The story of Lough Derg in Ireland’s County Donegal is arranged around clusters of sectarian narratives in juxtaposition, synthesis and conflict. The Sanctuary of Saint Patrick sits on Station Island, a small rocky islet set within the waters of the lake. The site became well known in the early Middle Ages as the place of Saint Patrick’s delving of a cave that led to purgatory, allowing the sinner to experience a glimpse of the torments of hell while still in this life. The island then attracted pilgrims from all over Europe and became embedded into the Catholic literary and spiritual imagination. After the Protestant Ascendency and the Plantation of Ulster began in the seventeenth century, the place became a site of tension and narrative clashes between differing visions of rural place, each with its own spectrum of affect, emotions and ideals.This essay unpacks the resonances of Lough Derg as a site of sectarian narrative by 1) situating the discussion within a distinctly rural context 2) adding the unique properties of spiritual waterscape to the discussion and 3) discussing the Irish sectarian narratives and identities arising from the lake and its purgatorial isle. It focuses on a case study of Protestant and establishment accounts of the lake during the nineteenth century, depicting them as internally erse as well as part of a larger ecology of sectarian contestations. It explores waterscape and its role in influencing community responses to and shaping of place, the manner in which sectarian responses to space are internally erse, and the manner in which Catholic and Protestant narratives of place have intertwined to shape the lake in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 22-07-2020
DOI: 10.3390/H9030067
Abstract: Hollywood films such as Pixar’s Moana (2016) and Warner Brothers’ Aquaman (2018) have drawn on the aesthetics and stories of the island cultures of Oceania to inform their narratives. In doing so, these works have both succeeded and failed to respect and engage with oceanic cultural knowledge, providing a cultural vehicle to expand communication, while also exploiting Oceanic culture for financial gain. Cultural tropes and stereotypes pose a heavy intellectual burden that neither film fully shoulders, nor are the complexities of their content acknowledged. Moana sought to enlarge the franchise of the “Disney Princess” genre, but could not avoid issues of cultural appropriation and tokenism becoming entangled with an ongoing process of engagement. Moana’s desire to represent the cultural memory of Oceania raises questions, but while Pixar presents digital fantasy, Aquaman hides its global ambitions beneath star Jason Momoa’s broad shoulders. If the blue humanities is to follow the seminal postcolonial scholarship of Tongan and Fijian cultural theorist Epeli Hau’ofa by exploring a counter-hegemonic narrative in scholarly treatment of the global oceans, then how can it respond with respect? This risk applies equally to academic literary inquiry, with a more inclusive mode of receptive and plural blue humanities as an emerging response.
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.17613/M6TV1K
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.17613/T2FF-GZ73
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-06-2023
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.17613/SNRG-3A02
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.17613/M6VV28
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.17613/ZFPB-8689
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.16995/OLH.283
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 05-2021
Abstract: This article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being. It also reflects on the totalizing nature of assuming a single form of memory, of archiving, or of trauma in a world of lakes riven with partially occluded, subsumed, ever-present, and retrieved stories expressed through water. Memory for whom? Recollection for whom? Archiving is never simple, never complete, and never without ingrained and intersecting structures of suppressed and channeled violence. Waters leave a trail of their own, writ on and in water. It contains stories that are recorded and relived. It has ontologies that are plural, overlapping, and multiple modes of memory captured in a hydrocommons where perspectives pool. Rather than asserting that a lake is an archive, this article concludes by proposing that it is a counterarchive where archival modes and anxieties can be exposed and explored. This is true of all waters, but lakes offer an ideal case study.
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Date: 2018
Publisher: Zenodo
Date: 2022
Publisher: Humanities Commons
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.17613/M60J3S
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2018
End Date: End date not available
Funder: Irish Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2019
End Date: End date not available
Funder: Irish Research Council
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