Main entry:

Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971- author.

Title & Author:

Theory of water : Nishnaabe maps to the times ahead / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Alchemy by Knopf Canada, [2025]
©2025

Description:

209 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references
When It Was Icy, I Could Fly -- Nibi -- Listening in Our Present Moment -- Sintering -- Gizhiigokwe & Chi'Mikinak -- Mappings of the Liminal -- Un-mappings Leading to Everywhere and Nowhere -- Pinery Road and Concession 11 -- "Where My Mother Held Me" -- Agaming: On the Shore -- Bull Frogs, Cattails and Water Lilies -- "Remembering Where It Used to Be" -- Maps to Statelessness -- "All of Them Carrying Yesterday" -- Gizhewaadiziwin -- Flowing -- Aabijijiwan, Continual Flowing -- Recapturing -- Seeing the Forest from the Lake -- Being a River -- Stone Canoes, Nigigoonsiwag and Seeing Through Stone -- The One That Cleans the World -- A Theory of Water.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"Acclaimed writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson takes a revolutionary look at that most elemental force, water, and through Indigenous stories, tradition, and thinking, suggests a powerful path for the future. For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took solace in skiing--in all kinds of weather, on all kinds of snow across all kinds of terrain, often following the trail beside a beloved creek near her home. Recently, as she skied on this path against the backdrop of uncertainty, environmental devastation, rising authoritarianism and ongoing social injustice, her mind turned to the water in the creek and an elemental question: What might it mean to truly listen to water? To know water? To exist with and alongside water? So began a quest to understand her people's historical, cultural, and ongoing interactions with water in all its forms (ice, snow, rain, perspiration, breath). Pulling together these threads, Leanne began to see how a "Theory of Water" might suggest a radical rethinking of relationships between beings and forces in the world today. In this inventive work, Simpson draws on Nishnaabeg origin stories and her own deep thinking while artfully weaving the work of influential writers and artists alongside her personal memories and experience--and in doing so, reimagines water as a catalyst for radical transformation, capable of birthing a new world. Theory of Water is a resonant and brilliant exploration of an intricate, multi-layered relationship with the most abundant element on our planet--one that, as Simpson eloquently shows, is shaping our present even as it demands a radical rethinking of how we might achieve a just future."-- Provided by publisher.

Biographical note:

LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist who is widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. An independent scholar who uses Nishnaabeg intellectual practices, Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada and the US. She is an award-winning musician and the author of eight previous books, including the nonfiction A Short History of the Blockade and the novels Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Dublin Literary Prize, and This Accident of Being Lost, which was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award. Her nonfiction collaboration with Robyn Maynard, Rehearsals for Living, was a national bestseller and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction.

ISBN:

9781039010246 (hardcover)
1039010245 (hardcover)

Subject:

Water Philosophy.
Water History.
Water Social aspects.
Water and civilization.
Ojibwe.
Eau Philosophie.
Eau Histoire.
Eau Aspect social.
Eau et civilisation.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321087
Call No.: 321087
Copy: 1
Status: Available