Oceaning - Governing Marine Life with Drones

Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more, drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process, new dependencies between nature, technology, and humans emerge, and a paradox becomes apparent. Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? In Oceaning, Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks, and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs. Drone conservation is not the end of nature. Instead, drone conservation results in an ocean whose flourishing both depends upon and escapes the control of technologies. Faulty technology, oceanic and atmospheric turbulence, political corruption, and the inadequacies of basic science serve to foil the governance over nature. Fish contends that what emerges is an ocean/culture—a flourishing ocean that is distinct from but exists alongside humanity.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Elements
Release date:	February 2024
First published:	2024
Authors:	Adam Fish
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-2580-1
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-4780-2580-8
Barcode:	9781478025801

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