Local Water Diversely Known
Walkerton Ontario, 2000 and after
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joy Parr (Technology, Culture, and Risk, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B8, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 251-271 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d431 |
| OpenAlex | W2113390270 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 15 |
In this narrative of the water contamination in Walkerton, Ontario, in 2000-02 I consider the local priorities defining good water. These vernacular understandings emphasised taste, softness, and thrift in municipal water, and they highly valued local sovereignty in matters of water quality, and solidarity as a quality of local citizenship. By using contemporaneous evidence from media reports and the judicial enquiry into the incident, I trace how the qualities of good water were redefined, and with them community standards of safety, expertise, and risk. The emphasis on community consent to vernacular water monitoring practices and the implications of this shared responsibility differ from the journalistic and judicial accounts which emphasise individual culpability
Citizenship · Culpability · Environmental ethics · Local community · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Solidarity · Taste · Vernacular · Water quality · American Environmental and Regional History · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |