{"id":738,"date":"2020-09-01T20:26:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T20:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=738"},"modified":"2020-10-27T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:10:01","slug":"online-book-talk-hannah-boast-hydrofictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/booktalk\/online-book-talk-hannah-boast-hydrofictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Book Talk: Hannah Boast, Hydrofictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, October 26, 2020, at 16:00, Hannah Boast, Ad Astra Fellow and Assistant Professor at University College Dublin, presented <em><a href=\"https:\/\/edinburghuniversitypress.com\/book-hydrofictions.html\">Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature<\/a><\/em> (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Water is a major global issue that will shape our future. This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world\u2019s water resources, focusing on the urgent context of Israel\/Palestine. It covers a broad range of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian authors including Mourid Barghouti, Sayed Kashua and Amos Oz. It argues for the necessity of recognising water\u2019s vital importance in understanding contemporary Israeli and Palestinian literature, showing that water is as culturally significant as that much more obvious object of nationalist attention, the land. In doing so, it offers new insights into Israeli and Palestinian literature and politics, and into the role of culture in an age of environmental crisis.\u00a0<em>Hydrofictions<\/em>\u00a0shows that how we imagine water is inseparable from how we manage it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk: Boast\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/472627603?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"819\" height=\"461\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, October 26, 2020, at 16:00, Hannah Boast, Ad Astra Fellow and Assistant Professor at University College Dublin, presented Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Boast_cover_500.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}