Open Rivers : Issue 21 Through the Current Issue

Rethinking Water, Place & Community

2022 -2024

Mariners, Makers, Matriarchs: Changing Relationships Between Coast Salish Women & Water

Collaboration for a Common Goal

How the River Moves Us: Women Speak Their Story

Floodplains and Hurricanes: Mapping Natural Disasters to Uncover Vulnerable Communities

On Rivers, Women, and Canoes

Water as Weapon: Gender and WASH

The Summit of STEM: Navigating the Uneven Terrain

Women Landowners and the Language of Partnership Needed for Water Quality Change

Time and Trauma

Co-creating a Learning Refugia by Walking Alone and TogetherStorying the Floods: Experiments in Feminist Flood Futures

Storying the Floods: Experiments in Feminist Flood Futures

Formless Like Water: Defensoras and the Work of Water Protection

Women and Urban Waterways in Korean Modernist Literature

Washed Up

Open Water

Resonant Rivers: Water, Indigenous Relationality, and Other Futures

We Are On Dakhóta Land: A Review of Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper

Water Memories: Exploring Our Relationship With Water

Women & Water: Inspiration and Resources

Fisher Women and Job Insecurity in West Africa

The Science in Indigenous Water Stories, Indigenous Women’s Connection to Water

Connecting Environment, Place, and Community

Learning Together: The Humanities Futures Labs

Place and Relations Capstone: Indigenizing Education

Where We Stand: The University of Minnesota and Dakhóta Treaty Lands

The College Union: Where Tradition Meets Decolonization on Campus

Indigenous Wisdom: Re-story-ation to Resist, Resurge, and Inspire

Data Science in Indian Country

Collaborative Indigenous Research

Teaching Indigenous Epistemologies at the University of Minnesota

The Return of Pa’ashi: Colonial Unknowing and California’s Tulare Lake

Layers in the Landscape: A Floodplain Forest and the People Who Have Inhabited It

Creating Change through Community-Engaged Research: An Open Rivers Collection

Morning on Chesapeake

Seals, Swimmers, Bat Carers

Resistance as Grounds for Futurity: Placemaking and Unsettling through #StopLine3

Mapping Engagement: A Dive into the University’s Community-Engaged Partnerships

The River at our Doorstep: Student Projects Tell Stories of the Mississippi River

Socio-Ecological System of Flooding in Bucksport, South Carolina

A Fluid Border: The River Tamar and Constructed Difference in Travel Writing of Cornwall

The Backbone of America: A New River with the Same Ol’ Bones

Not a Border, But a Path: Swimming Across the Rio Grande

When the Border is a River: A Journey Along the Salween River-Border

'The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration' by Jake Bittle

A Small but Ultimate Presence

How much is the world’s most productive river worth?

Creative Connections with Rivers: A Toolkit for Learning and Collaboration

Point Hudson, a well-known camping spot for Indigenous individuals. Image courtesy of Alexandra Peck.

Mariners, Makers, Matriarchs: Changing Relationships Between Coast Salish Women & Water

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 21 : Women & Water : Calling .

Collaboration for a Common Goal

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 21 : Women & Water : Calling .

Sitting with Renita Green and Alyssa Phares outside Marquette Tower in Cape Girardeau. Image courtesy of A House Unbuilt.

How the River Moves Us: Women Speak Their Story

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 21 : Women & Water : Calling .

Harris County flood rescue. Image by Lt. Zachary West, 100th MPAD/Texas Military Department.

Floodplains and Hurricanes: Mapping Natural Disasters to Uncover Vulnerable Communities

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 21 : Women & Water : Calling .

Natalie Warren paddling a canoe. Image courtesy of Kelsey Daly.

On Rivers, Women, and Canoes

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 21 : Women & Water : Calling .

In Bangladesh, Rohingya women in refugee camps share stories of loss and hopes of recovery. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) UN Women/Allison Joyce.

Water as Weapon: Gender and WASH

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 21 : Women & Water : Calling .

Mt. Stem by Digba Coker, 2022. Image courtesy of Digba Coker.

The Summit of STEM: Navigating the Uneven Terrain

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 21 : Women & Water : Calling .

The creek buffer that one woman farmland owner succeeded in planting on her land. Image courtesy of Carolyn Van Meter.

Women Landowners and the Language of Partnership Needed for Water Quality Change

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 21 : Women & Water : Calling .

Kenyan women carry water buckets filled with water on their heads during World Water Day after fetching the water at one of the illegal freshwater points in Mathare slums in Nairobi, Kenya, 22 March 2019. International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of highlighting the importance of freshwater and its management. The theme for the World Water Day In 2019 is 'Leaving no one behind', highlighting whoever you are, wherever you are, water is your human right. EPA-EFE/Daniel Irungu.

Time and Trauma

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 21 : Women & Water : Calling .

The authors on a walk to hear Robin Wall Kimmerer speak as part of the Pittsburgh Arts & Lecture Series. Image courtesy of the authors.

Co-creating a Learning Refugia by Walking Alone and TogetherStorying the Floods: Experiments in Feminist Flood Futures

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 21 : Women & Water : Calling .

Fortney Farm in Soldiers Grove. Image courtesy of Tim Hundt.

Storying the Floods: Experiments in Feminist Flood Futures

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 22 : Women & Water : Confrontation .

Defensoras and allies on retreat in Celendín. Image courtesy of Natalia Guzmán Solano.

Formless Like Water: Defensoras and the Work of Water Protection

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 22 : Women & Water : Confrontation .

Women working at a laundry site at Ch'onggye Stream, circa 1930s.

Women and Urban Waterways in Korean Modernist Literature

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 22 : Women & Water : Confrontation .

Swimming pool at AUT Millenium training center, Aukland, New Zealand. Image by Artem Verbo on Unsplash.

Washed Up

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 22 : Women & Water : Confrontation .

A view of San Francisco from the bay from the water with just us and the seals. Image courtesy of Norman Hantzsche.

Open Water

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 22 : Women & Water : Confrontation .

Memorial event for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Winnipeg, July 2015. Image courtesy of Caroline Doenmez.

Resonant Rivers: Water, Indigenous Relationality, and Other Futures

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 22 : Women & Water : Confrontation .

Bde Wakan/Misi-zaaga'iganiing (Mille Lacs Lake), a place my family always returns to. Image courtesy of Racquel Banaszak.

We Are On Dakhóta Land: A Review of Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 22 : Women & Water : Confrontation .

2022 / Mississippi Park Connection’s program, Kayaking While BIPOC, on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Image courtesy of Lee Vue.

Water Memories: Exploring Our Relationship With Water

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 22 : Women & Water : Confrontation .

"Niimaamaa" sculpture in Winnipeg by artists KC Adams, Jaimie Isaac and Val Vint (2018). Image courtesy of Caroline Fidan Tyler Doenmez.

Women & Water: Inspiration and Resources

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 22 : Women & Water : Confrontation .

African woman carrying fish in a basket on her head on the local market in Assomada, Santiago. A large number of West African women rely on the blue economy to survive. MaaikeZaal/GettyImages.

Fisher Women and Job Insecurity in West Africa

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 22 : Women & Water : Confrontation .

The Science in Indigenous Water Stories, Indigenous Women’s Connection to Water

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 23 : Connections in Practice .

Connecting Environment, Place, and Community

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 23 : Connections in Practice .

Learning Together: The Humanities Futures Labs

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 23 : Connections in Practice .

Place and Relations Capstone: Indigenizing Education

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 23 : Connections in Practice .

Where We Stand: The University of Minnesota and Dakhóta Treaty Lands

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 23 : Connections in Practice .

The College Union: Where Tradition Meets Decolonization on Campus

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 23 : Connections in Practice .

Indigenous Wisdom: Re-story-ation to Resist, Resurge, and Inspire

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 23 : Connections in Practice .

Data Science in Indian Country

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 23 : Connections in Practice .

Collaborative Indigenous Research

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 23 : Connections in Practice .

Teaching Indigenous Epistemologies at the University of Minnesota

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 23 : Connections in Practice .

The Return of Pa’ashi: Colonial Unknowing and California’s Tulare Lake

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 24 : Layers .

Layers in the Landscape: A Floodplain Forest and the People Who Have Inhabited It

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 24 : Layers .

Creating Change through Community-Engaged Research: An Open Rivers Collection

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 24 : Layers .

Morning on Chesapeake

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 24 : Layers .

Seals, Swimmers, Bat Carers

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 24 : Layers .

Resistance as Grounds for Futurity: Placemaking and Unsettling through #StopLine3

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 24 : Layers .

Mapping Engagement: A Dive into the University’s Community-Engaged Partnerships

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 24 : Layers .

The River at our Doorstep: Student Projects Tell Stories of the Mississippi River

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 24 : Layers .

Socio-Ecological System of Flooding in Bucksport, South Carolina

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 25: Rivers & Borders .

A Fluid Border: The River Tamar and Constructed Difference in Travel Writing of Cornwall

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 25: Rivers & Borders .

The Backbone of America: A New River with the Same Ol’ Bones

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 25: Rivers & Borders .

Not a Border, But a Path: Swimming Across the Rio Grande

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 25: Rivers & Borders .

When the Border is a River: A Journey Along the Salween River-Border

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 25: Rivers & Borders .

'The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration' by Jake Bittle

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 25: Rivers & Borders .

A Small but Ultimate Presence

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 25: Rivers & Borders .

How much is the world’s most productive river worth?

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 25: Rivers & Borders .

Creative Connections with Rivers: A Toolkit for Learning and Collaboration

Read the article at Open Rivers as a part of Issue 25: Rivers & Borders .