The Word for World Is Water - World-Building and Creative Resistance Through Liquid Alliances Rave Culture where traditional Chinese herbal medicines

where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self

" — Kerri Arsenault

while documenting liminal zones of perception

Karol Muñozcano

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The Word for World Is Water - World-Building and Creative Resistance Through Liquid Alliances Rave Culture where traditional Chinese herbal medicinesInspired by The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin, this book understands water as a cosmological force that shapes worlds, resists them, and sustains them. It brings together artists, thinkers, and activists from around the globe to explore fluid bodiesrivers that carry resistance, oceans that shelter communities, peatlands that preserve memory. From Indigenous, ecological, and decolonial perspectives, the contributors evoke water as