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Leanne’s voice and writing has grown both sharper and poignant over the years. Every book builds powerfully on the last - i always feel like i read the best book by her 🌿
In theory of water, leanne provides a transformative framework of thinking through the world(s) as water - leaking, morphing, reflecting, and adapting to create interconnected worlds beyond this one. She is both *hyper aware* of the violence of this time and radically hopeful of the worlds being practiced now to build a different future.
A beautiful touchstone of hope at this moment (akin to braiding sweetgrass and serviceberry 🌿)
In theory of water, leanne provides a transformative framework of thinking through the world(s) as water - leaking, morphing, reflecting, and adapting to create interconnected worlds beyond this one. She is both *hyper aware* of the violence of this time and radically hopeful of the worlds being practiced now to build a different future.
A beautiful touchstone of hope at this moment (akin to braiding sweetgrass and serviceberry 🌿)
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Thank you, Net Galley, for providing this arc in exchange for an honest review. The Theory of Water is beautifully written prose that highlights the issue of declining water supply. Capitalism has forced us to abandon indigenous knowledge systems, and this rich narrative tells us why we need to rethink our current global means. The world depends on indigenous knowledge to survive and protect our waters, but capitalism harms indigenous peoples and their traditions because it does not produce the capital they want to see. Capitalism benefits from harm and the only way to reduce the harm is to revolt against the current system for the original systems.
She discusses the need to work together and as bodies of water, such as rivers connect us all. We are all reliant on each other and need to learn to cohabitate in an environment that helps instead of dividing us further into individualistic categories. There is much to learn from the water and the animal kingdom, as this decrees. The prose, the lists, the poems all serve a purpose throughout this narrative to help us understand the knowledge we are missing out on if we continue down the path of capitalism. These indigenous stories are important and we need to embrace our knowledge instead of repressing it.
Thanks for this wonderful read and my only complaint is that I feel there is more to learn, but this book serves its purpose without overloading the readers with information. The blend of pose, marginalized voices, and poetry really brings the narrative and the authors perspective to focus. The purposeful writing is inspiring to fight back against culture that represses critical knowledge systems and infrastructures. Buy this book – share this narrative. Our water is our life force.
She discusses the need to work together and as bodies of water, such as rivers connect us all. We are all reliant on each other and need to learn to cohabitate in an environment that helps instead of dividing us further into individualistic categories. There is much to learn from the water and the animal kingdom, as this decrees. The prose, the lists, the poems all serve a purpose throughout this narrative to help us understand the knowledge we are missing out on if we continue down the path of capitalism. These indigenous stories are important and we need to embrace our knowledge instead of repressing it.
Thanks for this wonderful read and my only complaint is that I feel there is more to learn, but this book serves its purpose without overloading the readers with information. The blend of pose, marginalized voices, and poetry really brings the narrative and the authors perspective to focus. The purposeful writing is inspiring to fight back against culture that represses critical knowledge systems and infrastructures. Buy this book – share this narrative. Our water is our life force.
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Really solid book and important perspective to read.
One of the aspects I liked most seems to be inspired by Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown (which is inspired by Octavia Butler) though she is not listed in the footnotes anywhere.
Page 24 and 188 both list a set of adjectives that describes emergence as amb wrote of them in 2017. See e.g. this quote/poem from Emergent Strategy:
Octavia Butler (amb)
All successful life is (Fractal)
Adaptable, (Adaptive)
Opportunistic, (Nonlinear/Iterative)
Tenacious, (Resilient/Transformative Justice),
Interconnected, and (Interdependent/Decentralized)
Fecund. (Creates More Possibilities)
Understand this. (Scholarship, Reflection)
Use it. (Practice/Experiment)
Shape God. (Intention)
I love when the Leanne Betasamosake Simpson brings up other books and authors I've read, such as Andrea Ritchie, Dean Spade, and Robin Wall Kimmerer while weaving them into her essays and lived experiences, so I suppose I'm surprised amb was not mentioned in the same way. Anyway, if you liked this book, please consider reading Emergent Strategy also!
One of the aspects I liked most seems to be inspired by Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown (which is inspired by Octavia Butler) though she is not listed in the footnotes anywhere.
Page 24 and 188 both list a set of adjectives that describes emergence as amb wrote of them in 2017. See e.g. this quote/poem from Emergent Strategy:
Octavia Butler (amb)
All successful life is (Fractal)
Adaptable, (Adaptive)
Opportunistic, (Nonlinear/Iterative)
Tenacious, (Resilient/Transformative Justice),
Interconnected, and (Interdependent/Decentralized)
Fecund. (Creates More Possibilities)
Understand this. (Scholarship, Reflection)
Use it. (Practice/Experiment)
Shape God. (Intention)
I love when the Leanne Betasamosake Simpson brings up other books and authors I've read, such as Andrea Ritchie, Dean Spade, and Robin Wall Kimmerer while weaving them into her essays and lived experiences, so I suppose I'm surprised amb was not mentioned in the same way. Anyway, if you liked this book, please consider reading Emergent Strategy also!
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Incredibly inviting writing and an important read for orienting yourself to connecting with land, connecting with water, non-human people, and orienting towards emergent social justice that creates more life. I loved the Leanne’s voice and the ways she centered Indigenous Knowledge within a very global orientation while emphasizing the ways the capitalist /European writings if indigenous knowledge has been extractive and harmful. I dogeared many pages for future perusal to tap back into the messages that touched me throughout. I will read more from Leanne in the future, for sure. A good pick for anyone social justice oriented who are looking for connections and ways to orient towards community in this time.