Troubling the Waters:

Using Stories to Complicate and Deepen our Connections to Water

Candance Doerr-Stevens

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/cle.v2i2.6397

Keywords: water narratives, eco-fiction, ecocentrism, interdependence


Abstract

This article provides an overview of “Water as Resource, Relative and Place”: an online collection of eco texts including picturebooks, chapter books, YA novels, and media texts that illustrate a wide range of relationships with water. The article includes a brief history on how the online resource was started and reflects on how we all wear multiple hats in how we relate to water. In better understanding our multifaceted relationship to water, we can better position ourselves in our teaching about, caring for, and flourishing with water.