Open Rivers (Jul 2016)

Guest Editors’ Introduction to Issue Three

  • Laura Turner Igoe, Nenette Luarca-Shoaf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.1925
Journal volume & issue
no. Issue Three : Summer 2016

Abstract

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Water is a slippery subject: its visual and material properties spur intellectual inquiry and spiritual reverie; its fluctuating form repels categorization and confounds claims of ownership as it crosses property lines and national borders; and river and ocean currents facilitate commercial exchange along with environmental exploitation.

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