This book explores questions related to social and cultural sustainability of coastal communities in transition through the lens of childhood. Contributors explore diverse local and national contexts spanning several countries aiming to shed light on the shifting and dynamic interplay between education, knowledge production, society and working life in coastal environments from an intergenerational perspective. Key points that are disclosed are:
- the current threat to the social and cultural sustainability of coastal communities in different local and national contexts, and the reason they must be preserved
- the centrality of processes of inter generational transmission of local knowledge to the preservation and development of sustainable coastal communities
- the central role of children and young people as actors in creating sustainable livelihoods, economies and knowledge in coastal communities for the future?
- the practices across different country contexts
The book will address the challenges to sustainability experienced by local communities in light of local, national and global social and economic changes. Looking at these challenges cross-nationally and through the lens of childhood, and knowledge production across generations, will provide for a much-needed perspective in ongoing discussion on sustainability in coastal communities.
Author(s): Anne Trine Kjørholt, Sharon Bessell, Dympna Devine, Firouz Gaini, Spyros Spyrou
Series: MARE Publication Series, 27
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 240
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Exploring Coastal Societies and Knowledge in Transition Across Generations
1.1 Coastal Communities in Transition
1.2 The Changing Values of Education and Knowledge
1.3 Education, Knowledge, and Sustainability
1.4 Researching Children and Young People: Theoretical Perspectives
1.5 Methodology
1.6 Mapping the Chapters of This Volume
References
Chapter 2: Coastal Communities Past, Present, and Future? The Value of Social and Cultural Sustainability
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Conceptualising Sustainability
2.2.1 Sustainable Development
2.3 Sustainability in Small Coastal Communities
2.4 Challenges of Coastal Sustainability and the SDG Agenda
2.4.1 Social and Cultural Sustainability - A Relational Intergenerational Approach
2.4.2 Bringing Culture In
2.5 Cultural Heritage and Collective Social Memory
2.6 Local Knowledge Transmission
2.7 Justice and Sustainability
2.8 Valuing the Past, Sustaining the Future?
References
Chapter 3: Growing Up in a Norwegian Coastal Town in the Nineteenth Century: Work and Intergenerational Relations
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Intergenerational Relations and Child Work
3.3 Shipping Industry in Porsgrunn in the Nineteenth Century
3.4 Young Boys at Sea
3.5 Changing Businesses and Child Work in Porsgrunn
3.6 Child Work and Intergenerational Relations on Shore in Porsgrunn
3.7 Work, Education and Intergenerational Relations in a Pre-modern Coastal Community
References
Chapter 4: `I´m Treading Water Here for My Generation´: Gendered and Generational Perspectives on Informal Knowledge Transmiss...
4.1 Introduction - Local Knowledge in Coastal Contexts
4.2 Setting the Coastal Context: The Transition from Working Childhoods to Educational Trajectories
4.3 Theorising `Local´ Knowledge and (Sociocultural) Sustainability
4.4 The Irish Study Field Sites and Sample Population
4.5 Methods and Tools of Analysis
4.6 Manifestations of Informal Local Knowledge Transmissions Across Time and Gender in the Sustainability of Irish Coastal Com...
4.6.1 Broadening and Deepening a `Way of Life´
4.6.2 Deepening and Regrounding
4.7 Hybrid `Local´ Knowledge for the Future?
4.8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Local Knowledge and Change in a Small Fishing Community in Cyprus: Implications for Social and Cultural Sustainabil...
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Sense of Place, Belonging, and Ruptures in the Intergenerational Transmission of Local Knowledge
5.3 Methodology
5.4 Local Knowledge, Skills, and Values
5.5 Place, Intergenerational Relationships, and Sustainability
5.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: The Shifting Landscape of Childhood and Literacies of the Sea in a Coastal Community in Mid-Norway: Sustaining the ...
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Methodology and Site of Investigation
6.2.1 Landscapes of Childhood and Literacies of the Sea: Theoretical Perspectives
6.3 Landscapes of Childhood and Literacies of the Sea in a Small-Scale Fishing Community
6.3.1 Place as a Site of Knowing; the Sea as an Educator
6.3.2 Mutual Interdependent and Intergenerational Communities of Work
6.3.3 Robust Adaptation to Marine Resources: Diverse Skills; Mangsyssler´n
6.3.4 Moral/Cultural Values: The Best of the Community as an Overall Aim
6.3.5 ``When People Got Money, There Was a Change´´: Transition to the Fish-Farming Industry
6.3.6 Kystbarnehagen: An Institutional Space for Revitalization of Literacies of the Sea?
6.3.7 ``By No Doubt, I Want to Be a Fisherman´´
6.4 Sustainability by Valuing the Landscape of Childhood and the Literacies of the Sea: Concluding Discussion
References
Chapter 7: Learning from the Coast: Youth, Family, and Local Knowledge in the Faroe Islands
7.1 Introduction and Theoretical Framework
7.2 Method and Context
7.3 How to Grow Potatoes
7.4 The Big Catch
7.5 How to Walk Zigzag
7.6 Making the Knot
References
Chapter 8: Sustainability, Knowledge and Social Identity: Commonalities, Conflicts and Complexities in Coastal Communities in ...
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Sustainability
8.3 Knowledge
8.4 Social Identity
8.5 The Research Context
8.5.1 Tasmanian Research Sites
8.6 Methodology and Methods
8.7 Sustainability, Knowledge and Identities on the Coast
8.7.1 Fishing as Identity
8.7.2 Coastal and Tasmanian: Shared Narratives of Identity
8.7.3 Conflicting Identities
8.7.4 Developmentalism as Sustainability and Identity
8.7.5 Environmentalism, Sustainability and Identity
8.8 What Knowledge Is Valued? What Knowledge Is Valuable?
8.9 Concluding Comments
References
Chapter 9: ``I Shall Be a Fisherman´´: Learning from the Past, Imagining the Future: Observations from a Viable Fishing Commun...
9.1 Prologue
9.2 When It All Starts
9.3 Teenagers and Youth
9.4 How We Teach and Taught Our Boys to Become Fishers
9.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 10: The Sea Lost and Found: Changes and Interdependencies in a Coastal Community in Denmark
10.1 Introduction
10.2 A Relational Approach to Communities
10.3 Changing Interdependencies
10.4 Local Opportunities
10.5 Ambivalent Perspectives
10.6 Detachment from the Local
10.7 Social Viability: Present and Future Perspectives
References
Chapter 11: Blue Education: Exploring Case Studies of Place-Based and Intergenerational Learning on Norwegian Islands
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Theoretical Perspectives - The Coast as a Site for Place- and Activity-Based Forms of Learning
11.2.1 Intergenerational Dimension of Place- and Activity-Based Forms of Learning
11.2.2 The Maritime Pedagogue
11.3 Methodological Framework
11.3.1 Case 1: `Out on the Sea, Into the Farmyard´
11.3.2 Case 2: `From the Town to the Sea´: Travelling to Explore `the Local´ in a Small Fishing Community
11.3.3 Case 3: Education, Blue Agriculture and Local Food Production
11.4 Valuing Blue Agriculture: Students´ Experiences
11.5 Mustering the Grit and Generational Linage as an Educational Asset
11.6 Out on the Ocean: Into Intergenerational Learning
11.7 The Maritime Pedagogue
11.8 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 12: Becoming Coastal in a Minor Key
12.1 Living at the Edge of the World
12.2 Learning the More-Than-Human Sea
12.3 Gendered Seamanship
12.4 Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Sustainable Ethics
12.5 The Ethics of Becoming Coastal
12.6 Spinosa Lived on the Coast
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