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The Affordances of Fresh Water Jonathan Brettell Phd Walking Severn Miles: The Affordances of Fresh Water Jonathan Brettell PhD Department of Geography and Earth Sciences Aberystwyth University 2016 Carried away by torrents and their own weight, halted by obstacles or their own shape, stones descend and break, carve into the talweg the long path of their fall or movement. Masses of sand, driven by the wind, file away at the mountain. Ice cracks and breaks stones and trees, cliffs and the earth on the plain, as does drought. Who is writing? Water, snow, the return to gentler weather, ophite, granite, equilibrium, density, energy, sun, flora and fauna. This covers, that stains. On what do they write? On snow and water, on fauna or flora, on marble or ice. What the earth displays results from the wrinkles it gives itself. A page. What we reveal to others is a consequence of the erosion that others and things leave on our faces and skin, or from the shrinking of the harder skeleton, a worn-out frame on the edge of ruin. Whether we write, or are written on, our case is no different from the everyday concerns of geography. The constituent parts of the flesh wear each other out: biography. (Serres 2008:275) Beginnings are always arbitrary, always imagined. One can always extend the genealogy and go back further, or move off sideways seeking the skeleton in the closet. (B. Anderson & Harrison 2010: 3) Abstract Following a call from Linton (2010) to think more relationally about water this thesis seeks to explore the infolding and unfolding relations that take-form between bodies around particular characteristics of freshwater. There is a tradition of exploration regarding the sustainability, quality, monitoring and management of water when we encounter research on human associations with fluvial hydrology, and whilst this work is important, this project looks to enrol more nascent and contemporary geographical themes to broaden our understanding of encounters with freshwater landscapes, and take a more relational approach to fluvial geographies. These works then shall address a gap in the geographical literature and describe the personal, pre- personal and affective worlds that emerge when bodies become down by the river. Whilst this is not specifically a walking project, walking the course of the River Severn serves as a trajectory along which processual ideas of bodies on the move shall be mobilised. A series of creatively written segues will link together a sequence of theoretical and conceptually driven site ontologies (Marston et al 2005; Woodward et al 2010) and relations associated with the Severn and freshwater more broadly. The flow and form of the thesis will reflect the multivariant characteristics of water and its varying speeds and slownesses. The chapters will step into puddles, mooch about in a ships graveyard, rethink the source of a river, paddle a coracle and set the scene for how an ontological, relational approach to fluvial landscapes can contribute to geographical thinking. The works will focus on human-nonhuman relations, vibrant materialities and elemental mobilities, in so doing enable further understanding of how we can apprehend sites as moments of coherence in a turbulent world, and contribute to broadening our scope of knowledge of the more-than-human. Keywords: relationality, site ontology, fresh water, movement, nonhuman agency, entropy 1 Contents Abstract ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................... 5 Prelude: The Way to the Severn .............................................................................................. 6 Prologue: Approaching Performance .................................................................................... 12 CHAPTER 1: Worlding Water: Thematic Flows .................................................................. 21 Relational waters .................................................................................................................. 25 Site ontology.......................................................................................................................... 36 Geohumanities: multidisciplinary approaches to watery worlds .................................... 44 Performing sites – making moves ...................................................................................... 49 What we write about when we write about writing .......................................................... 61 Make-a-walk-write-a-walk-make-a-walk ........................................................................... 66 Trajectories ............................................................................................................................ 73 Connectedness ......................................................................................................................... 80 CHAPTER 2: Endurance, Persistence and Endeavour: Exploring Nonhuman Agency in a Puddle-Wonderful World. ..................................................................................................... 84 Puddles without water .......................................................................................................... 88 Absence-presence ............................................................................................................... 95 Weather-world ....................................................................................................................... 97 Puddled ecologies .............................................................................................................. 101 I can jump puddles, can you? ........................................................................................... 111 Playful spaces, sites of nuisance ..................................................................................... 113 Potholes and political pitfalls ............................................................................................ 122 2 Moments of melancholy .................................................................................................... 128 An apprehension ................................................................................................................ 130 Dolphin Spotting ..................................................................................................................... 132 CHAPTER 3: Diving Into Nonlinear History: Working-With Entropy at the Purton Ships Graveyard, Gloucestershire. ................................................................................................. 135 Nonlinear histories .............................................................................................................. 141 Entropic processes ............................................................................................................. 145 Memory-theatre .................................................................................................................. 155 Summary.............................................................................................................................. 157 Surfing-with-Spinoza: Moon and Mud ................................................................................. 160 source-sheep-mud-me .......................................................................................................... 164 CHAPTER 4: Ontologising the Source: Relational Approaches to Fluvial Geographies ................................................................................................................................................... 172 The stuff with which dreams are made ........................................................................... 177 River system structure ....................................................................................................... 181 Channel head ...................................................................................................................... 188 What’s the point? ................................................................................................................ 191 Take your plane into another dimension ......................................................................... 197 Walking-With-Proust: Bridgnorth to Bewdley – Day 1, to Hampton Loade ................... 200 Day1: South of Quatford .................................................................................................... 204 Day 2: Hampton Loade to Bewdley ................................................................................. 208 Rewind ................................................................................................................................. 214 3 Reflecting-With-Bachelard .................................................................................................... 217 Dancing-With-Bergson: How Movement Moves ................................................................ 220 CHAPTER 5: ‘Con yer swim?’ Chronicling the Coracle and the Topologies of Making ................................................................................................................................................... 224 Fishing, ferrying, poaching, paddling............................................................................... 225 Homo faber .........................................................................................................................
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