Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean (Paperback)

Contents: Foreword: on thalassography; Introduction: ’A perfect and absolute blank’: human geographies of the ocean, Jon Anderson and Kimberley Peters. Part I Ocean Knowledges: Understanding the Water World: Mediterranean metaphors: travel, translation, and oceanic imaginaries in the ’new Mediterraneans’ of the Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, Philip E. Steinberg; ’Plenty of weeds and penguins’: charting ocean knowledge, Anne-Flore LaloA≪; Geographies of coral reef conservation: global trends and environmental constructions, BA¤rbel G. Bischof; Merging with the medium? Knowing the place of the surfed wave, Jon Anderson. Part II Ocean Experiences: Embodied Performances, Practices and Emotions: The day we drove on the ocean (and lived to tell the tale about it): of deltas, ice roads, waterscapes and other meshworks, Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart; What I talk about when I talk about kayaking, Jon Anderson; Deep ethnography: witnessing the ghosts of SS Thistlegorm, Stephanie Merchant. Part III Ocean Natures: Mobilities and More-Than-Human Concerns: Sustaining livelihoods: mobility and governance in the Senegalese Atlantic, Juliette Hallaire and Deirdre McKay; Governance of the seas: a more-than-human perspective on the Cardigan Bay scallop fishery, Christopher Bear; ’With perfect regularity throughout’; more-than-human geographies of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Anyaa Anim-Addo; Taking more-than-human geographies to sea: ocean natures and offshore radio piracy, Kimberley Peters. Index.