In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms
of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological
news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with
oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United
States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how
scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materiality
through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language
these avatars of nature at once periodic and irreversible, wild and
pacific, ephemeral and eternal. For researchers and their publics,
the meanings of waves also reflect visions of the ocean as an
environmental infrastructure fundamental to trade, travel, warfare,
humanitarian rescue, recreation, and managing sea level rise.
Interleaving ethnographic chapters with reflections on waves in
mythology, surf culture, feminist theory, film, Indigenous Pacific
activisms, Black Atlantic history, cosmology, and more, Helmreich
demonstrates how waves mark out the wakes and breaks of social
histories and futures.
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