Open Education Resource
This collection of short essays will be aimed at undergraduate teaching in a range of courses: Environmental Studies and Sciences, Indigenous Studies, Education, Geography, and History.This will be a wide-ranging, visually rich collection of material that puts water in the centre of human and more-than-human life and explores what a variety of disciplines have to say about water and justice. It will include strong visual elements tying the essays together, including maps, images, and videos. Funding for this project is provided by the University of Manitoba’s Advance Open Ed program.
In June 2025, Just Waters hosted a three-day writing workshop for OER contributors. Kerri Arsenault and Cory Beizer of The Environmental Storytelling Studio led a group of writers, including eight faculty members from three universities and five faculties, two artists, five students from five different faculties, and two University of Manitoba staff in intensive writing exercises and close readings of a variety of texts. Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive? joined the group for a virtual conversation about our responsibilities to the waters, lands and beings that we write about.
