In July 2010, the United Nations declared access to water and sanitation a human
right. Certainly a success for water rights advocates worldwide, this resolution also poses
a number of questions, such as how to find and distribute this water on a planet that is
running out of fresh water (Barlow et al, Blue Gold xi). With this question in mind, this
thesis looks at the treatment of water management projects in Michael Ondaatje’s In the
Skin of a Lion (1987), Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water (1993), and Anne
Michaels’ The Winter Vault (2009). More specifically, it examines the ways competing
visions of the common good and of what development should (and should not) look like
are imbricated therein. In so doing, my discussion focuses on the inextricability of social
justice from water justice and it suggests that narrative can play a key role in connecting
the two.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:NSHD.ca#10222/13044 |
| Date | 02 September 2010 |
| Creators | Gallant, Laura |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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