Full Description
In Oceans as Archives, the ocean forms a generative site to develop practices of reading, writing, thinking, and imagining a long era of climate catastrophe. Many scholars, artists, and activists have argued that climate catastrophe demands new methods of writing, representation, and critique that attend to the violences and erasures of the past and create new possibilities for a collective future. Indigenous, Black, and (formerly) colonized peoples have centered oceans as sites of contest and connection, spaces of subversion, multispecies entanglement, ancestral knowledge, and as sources of life.
Including short and long essays, poems, and creative interventions, this volume centres oceans as archives to expand engagements with ocean justice from non-Eurocentric critical lineages characteristic of the racial capitalocene. It speaks to questions of oceanic past-present-futures from an array of ocean regions, (inter)disciplinary fields, his/her/theirstories, surfaces and depths. This scholarship - in all its multiplicity - forms a compass, a guide, a critical reminder that there have always been ways to think with the ocean beyond European cartography, extraction, capitalism, and colonization. Oceans as Archives will be essential reading for those interested in Critical Ocean Studies, Environmental Humanities, Indigenous Studies, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociolegal Studies, Geography, and Oceanography.
Contents
Oceans as Archives: An Introduction; I. NAVIGATION; 1.Written in the Stars, Felt at Sea, and Recorded in the Body: The Multisensoried and Radical Relationalities of Oceans and Archives in Trans-Indigenous Pacific Seafaring; 2. Depths of Knowing: (Re)Centering Seascape Relationality against Extractivism; 3. Roots, Routes, Ocean Wor(l)ds: The Watery Archive in the Art of Karishma D'Souza; II. SUBMERSION; 4. Thinking through Deep Seabed Mining with Black Feminist Marine Ecologies; 5. The Space of Water; 6. "Imagining all that mountain/ invisible beneath:" Pacific writing, continental shelves; III. DEEPWATER; 7. A True Love's Kiss trans-becoming-ancient as a mode of loving; 8. I sing of the sea I am a mermaid of the trees; 9. Body/Litmus; 10. Maam Kumba Bang, From the river to the sea, with calabash and curdled milk: Framing oceanic kinship in African Oral Traditions; IV. SHIP(WRECK); 11. Attending to the Leusden: the weight of transatlantic slavery; 12. Resisting Oceanic Neutrality: Seafarer Strikes, International Law, and Racial Capitalism at Sea; 13. The Shipwreck Starts Here.
