The world is at a critical moment, when humans must grapple with thinking about the planet’s oceans from ecological, physical, social, and legal perspectives. Warming ocean temperatures, changing currents, cultural displacement, Indigenous resilience, melting polar ice, habitat loss, are but a few of the global issues reflected in the planetary ocean as a front line in the unfolding drama of climate change. Re-envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean brings together leading scientists, lawyers, humanists, and Indigenous voices to tell of the ocean’s precarious position in the twenty-first century. The contributors affirm that the planetary ocean is crucial to our well-being and overdue for a positive change in public action to enhance the world’s resilience to climate change, ocean acidification, and other stressors. These essays engage that important work of positively re-imagining the ocean in the Anthropocene.
This volume brings diverse perspectives to the planet’s ocean future. New essays are contextualized with narratives woven by earlier ocean writers, showing readers how past perceptions of the ocean have led us to where we are today in terms of both problems and potential new visions. In this one volume, readers experience both the history of humanity’s multi- and interdisciplinary interactions with the ocean, find new perspectives on that history, and discover ideas for looking forward.
Author(s): Robin Kundis Craig; Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: ix; 430
City: Salt Lake City
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Re-envisioning the Ocean as Connection
Editors’ Introduction to Part I
Chapter 2: Literary Oceans
Chapter 3: Creating Ocean
Chapter 4: Minds Tossing on the Ocean
Chapter 5: Mobilizing Vessels and Voices
Part II: Re-envisioning Ocean Protection
Editors’ Introduction to Part II
Chapter 6: Humanity’s Changing Relationship with the Ocean
Chapter 7: A Reservation of Water
Chapter 8: Re-envisioning the Valueof Marine Spaces in Law
Chapter 9: One Step Forward,Two Steps Back
Chapter 10: Rights of NatureThe Answer to Our Oceanic Issues?
Part III: Re-envisioning Ocean Action
Editors’ Introduction to Part III
Chapter 11: Plastic in the Pacific
Chapter 12: Recrafting Narratives to Disruptthe Oceanic Plastic Plague
Chapter 13: Adaptive and Interactive Futures
Chapter 14: The Human Face of the Ocean
Chapter 15: Conclusion
Appendices: Inspiring Ocean Voices
Editors’ Introduction
Appendix A: A Deeper Historical Perspective
Appendix A . I: The Free Sea
Appendix A . 2: They That Occupy TheirBusiness on Great Waters
Appendix A . 3: From Davy Jones’ Locker to the Foot Locker*
Appendix B: A Broader Global Perspective
Appendix B.1: Our Sea of Islands
Appendix B.2: Just Where Does One Get aLicense to Kill Indians?
Appendix B.3: Praise Song for Oceania
Appendix B.4: Rehabilitation
Appendix C: A Snapshot of the Last Century of Scientific Calls to Arms
Appendix C.1: The Encircling Sea
Contributors
Index
