Carleton University
"As It Flows Down from the North": Confluences of Water Stewardship Emerging from the Ottawa River Watershed
Abstract
dc:description.abstractFlowing through the political centre of Canada, the Ottawa River is an invaluable source of potable water, industrial sustenance, recreational mediation and aesthetic prestige. Inseparable from un-ceded Algonquin lands, the river divides two provinces and is governed by multiple political bureaucracies which take different approaches to water stewardship. The river may be healthier than it once was, but emerging Anthropocene threats like microplastics, low water levels during record breaking summer heat and neocolonial developments are enhancing regional water insecurity. Based on fieldwork conducted during the summer of 2016, this research describes how localized confluences of people, institutions, technology and non-human species are responding to assembling ecological pressures by configuring new approaches to Ottawa River watershed stewardship. I explore how such confluences constitute the citizen-science labour of the Ottawa Riverkeeper Riverwatcher monitoring program, the political activism of First Nations and allied resistance to the Energy East oil pipeline.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Anthropology
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Carleton University
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2017
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Langille, Justin
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright © 2017 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:carleton.scholaris.ca:20.500.14718/39071