The seas and oceans are currently taking centre stage in academic study and public consciousness. From the plastics littering our seas, to the role of climate change on ocean currents from unequal access of marine resources to the treacherous experiences of seafarers who keep our global economy afloat; now is a crucial time to examine how we live with the sea.
This ambitious book brings together an interdisciplinary and international cohort of contributors from within and beyond academia. It offers a range and diversity of insights unlike previous collections. An 'oceanic turn' is taking place, with a burgeoning of academic work that takes seriously the place of seas and oceans in understanding socio-cultural and political life, past and present. Yet, there is a significant gap concerning the ways in which we engage with seas and oceans, with a will to enliven action and evoke change. This book explores these challenges, offering insights from spatial planning, architectural design, geography, educational studies, anthropology and cultural studies. An examination through these lenses can help us to better understand human relationships with the seas and oceans, and promote an ethic of care for the future.
Author(s): Mike Brown; Kimberley Peters
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: xiv+244
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
An unusual project
Outlining the book to come
Concluding thoughts
Note
References
Part One
2. Architecture and design
Challenging binaries
Interventions and imaginings in coasting
Conclusions
Notes
References
3. Marine spatial planning
Historical context of the Hauraki Gulf
Integrated management of the Hauraki Gulf
Seachange Tai Timu Tai Pari
Conclusions
Notes
References
4. Geo-spatial analysis
Psychophysical methods
New Zealand landscape character classification
Using public participatory GIS (PPGIS) to survey landscape preferences
Assessing seascapes values in the southern South Island by combining the NZLCC and PPGIS
Discussion
Note
References
5. Education and learning
Human impacts on the marine environment
Addressing the impacts
Marine environmental education
Action competence through marine education
Conclusion
Note
References
6. History and heritage
Contextualising the
The Mystic Seaport’s plan
Preparing the vessel
The Voyage through the eyes of artists, scholars and others, and their creative products
Impressions from dockside
Environmental interests and ironies: new perspectives on whaling
Port calls and homecoming
Conclusions
Notes
References
7. Sensory autoethnography
A start point: constructing
texts
Stepping in:
texts and interim texts
Stepping away: reflections on approach
Stepping up: embracing emerging methodologies
More-than-human watery connections through sensory narrative
References
8. Science and culture
Sea truthing through transitioning currents
Basin relations
relational currents on the move
Bringing visibility to transition
Antarctic Circumpolar Current projections
Living with transitioning currents
Notes
References
Part Two
9. Seafarers and work
Ship/life/sea
Endless journeys
Floating and balance
Conclusion
References
10. Surfers and leisure
Rebecca Olive, ‘women’s recreational surfing: negotiating cultures of localism’
Easkey Britton, ‘the emergent surf culture of Iran: negotiating social hierarchies’
Belinda Wheaton, ‘the California beach, race and space: negotiating relative freedoms’
Conclusions
Notes
References
11. Students and teachers
out about the place where I stand
Our legacy of plastic: learning to take action
The rising tide: adapting to a changing world
Paradigm shift: learning to live and being in the moment
Parting thoughts: te hone moana/the ocean swell
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
12. Bodies and technologies
Living in imaginative space.time of the sea
Embodied space.time
Mermaids, myths and cyborgs
Myths and reality
Concluding remarks
Notes
References
13. Past and presents
Personal connections
Making sense of intimate connections
Professional connections
Making sense of work-based connections: romanticised seascapes
Epilogue
Notes
References
14. Rituals and performance
Fear and the sea
Seaborne mobilities
Crossing the line
On not taking the plunge: bathophobia
Watery
Back to shore
Notes
References
15. Conclusions
Notes
Index
