Full Description
Invisible as the seas and oceans may be for so many of us, life as we know it is almost always connected to, and constituted by, activities and occurrences that take place in, on and under our oceans. The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space provides a first port of call for scholars engaging in the 'oceanic turn' in the social sciences, offering a comprehensive summary of existing trends in making sense of our water worlds, alongside new, agenda-setting insights into the relationships between society and the 'seas around us'. Accordingly, this ambitious text not only attends to a growing interest in our oceans, past and present; it is also situated in a broader spatial turn across the social sciences that seeks to account for how space and place are imbricated in socio-cultural and political life.
Through six clearly structured and wide-ranging sections, The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space examines and interrogates how the oceans are environmental, historical, social, cultural, political, legal and economic spaces, and also zones where national and international security comes into question. With a foreword and introduction authored by some of the leading scholars researching and writing about ocean spaces, alongside 31 further, carefully crafted chapters from established as well as early career academics, this book provides both an accessible guide to the subject and a cutting-edge collection of critical ideas and questions shaping the social sciences today.
This handbook brings together the key debates defining the 'field' in one volume, appealing to a wide, cross-disciplinary social science and humanities audience. Moreover, drawing on a range of international examples, from a global collective of authors, this book promises to be the benchmark publication for those interested in ocean spaces, past and present. Indeed, as the seas and oceans continue to capture world-wide attention, and the social sciences continue their seaward 'turn', The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space will provide an invaluable resource that reveals how our world is a water world.
Contents
Section 1: Ocean Approaches, Ocean Perspectives
1. Introduction: Placing and Situating Ocean Space(s)
Section 2: Ocean Frameworks, Ocean Knowledges
2. Mapping: Measuring, Modelling and Monitoring the Oceans
3. Science: Histories, Imaginations, Spaces
4. Representation: Seapower and the Political Construction of the Ocean
5. Empire: Towards Errant and Interlocking Maritime Spaces of Power
6. Frontiers: Ocean Epistemologies: Privatise, Democratise, Decolonise
7. Culture: Indigenous Māori Knowledges of the Ocean and Leisure Practices
Section 3: Ocean Economies, Ocean Labour
8. Fishing: Livelihoods and Territorialisation of Ocean Space
9. Planning: Seeking to Coordinate the Use of Marine Space
10. Docking: Maritime Ports in the Making of the Global Economy
11. Containers: The Shipping Container as Spatial Standard
12. Seafarers: The Force that Moves the Global Economy
13. (De)Growth: The Right to the Sea
14. Resources: Feminist Geopolitics of Ocean Imaginaries and Resource Securitisation
Section 4: Ocean Histories, Ocean Politics
15. Security: Pragmatic Spaces and the Maritime Security Agenda
16. Navies: Military Security and the Oceans
17. Discipline: Beyond the Ship as Total Institution
18. Protest: Contested Hierarchies and Grievances of the Sea
19. Solidarities: Oceanic Spaces and Internationalisms from Below
20. Migration: Security and Humanitarianism across the Mediterranean Border
Section 5: Ocean Experiences, Ocean Engagements
21. Writing: Literature and the Sea
22. Imaginaries: Art, Film, and the Scenography of Oceanic Worlds
23. Swimming: Immersive Encounters in the Ocean
24. Surfing: The What, Where, How, and Why of Wild Surfing
25. Sailing: The Ocean Around and Within Us
26. Diving: Leisure, Lively Encounters, and Work Underwater
Section 6: Ocean Environments, Ocean Worlds
27. Depth: Discovering, 'Mastering', Exploring the Deep
28. Life: Ethical, Extractive and Geopolitical Intimacies with Nonhuman Marine Life
29. Waves: The Measure of All Waves
30. Hydrosphere: Water and the Making of Earth Knowledge
31. Ice: Elements, Geopolitics, Law and Popular Culture
32. Islands: Reclaimed: Singapore, Space and the Sea
