Theory of Water: World-Making with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

About this episode

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson discusses her book on the lessons we can learn from water in a live conversation.

What can we learn from water? In this live conversation from Tidelands in Seattle, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson joins All My Relations to discuss her new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, our second selection for the All My Relations Book Club. Leanne invites us to listen to water as both teacher and theorist, “Water changes forms from a solid to a liquid to a gas. It expands our understanding of time. It always esca...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matika Wilbur, Temryss Lane

Guest: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Topics covered

• water
• Nishnaabe culture
• world-making
• literature
• environmentalism
• education

Keywords

• water
• Nishnaabe
• Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
• Theory of Water
• Tidelands
• Seattle
• book club
• environment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: All My Relations

Books & works: Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead

Places: Tidelands, Seattle

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