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Neimanis moved to Sydney in to take up her position, her first full-time permanent job after working at the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics and smaller universities in Canada.

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As a result the book she is writing draws on Australia as well as her Canadian birthplace and her Latvian ancestral home.

In her proposal for The Feeling of Water, she writes about water as a repository of “human discards and dumped desires”. Water holds and dissolves material pollutants and “remains of submerged imperial and colonial pasts that continue to flood the present”, such as slave trade, drowned refugees, militarisms and sinking island nations.

“Like any archive, waters remember, and waters forget.”

She tells the stories of three main geographical sites: World War II chemical weapons dumped in the Baltic Sea off Gotland Island; the industrial waste from Canada’s steel industry that has polluted a wetlands area of Lake Ontario, an Astrida NEIMANIS | The University of Sydney, Sydney ...

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