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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.
Mobilities research is now centre stage in the social sciences with
wide-ranging work that considers the politics underscoring the
movements of people and objects, critically examining a world that
is ever on the move. At first glance, the words 'carceral' and
'mobilities' seem to sit uneasily together. This book challenges
the assumption that carceral life is characterised by a lack of
movement. Carceral Mobilities brings together contributions that
speak to contemporary debates across carceral studies and
mobilities research, offering fresh insights to both areas by
identifying and unpicking the manifold mobilities that shape, and
are shaped by, carceral regimes. It features four sections that
move the reader through the varying typologies of motion
underscoring carceral life: tension; circulation; distribution; and
transition. Each mobilities-led section seeks to explore the
politics encapsulated in specific regimes of carceral movement.
With contributions from leading scholars, and a range of
international examples, this book provides an authoritative voice
on carceral mobilities from a variety of perspectives, including
criminology, sociology, history, cultural theory, human geography,
and urban planning. This book offers a first port of call for those
examining spaces of detention, asylum, imprisonment, and
containment, who are increasingly interested in questions of
movement in relation to the management, control, and confinement of
populations.
The seas and oceans are currently taking centre stage in academic
study and public consciousness. From the plastics littering our
seas, to the role of climate change on ocean currents from unequal
access of marine resources to the treacherous experiences of
seafarers who keep our global economy afloat; now is a crucial time
to examine how we live with the sea. This ambitious book brings
together an interdisciplinary and international cohort of
contributors from within and beyond academia. It offers a range and
diversity of insights unlike previous collections. An 'oceanic
turn' is taking place, with a burgeoning of academic work that
takes seriously the place of seas and oceans in understanding
socio-cultural and political life, past and present. Yet, there is
a significant gap concerning the ways in which we engage with seas
and oceans, with a will to enliven action and evoke change. This
book explores these challenges, offering insights from spatial
planning, architectural design, geography, educational studies,
anthropology and cultural studies. An examination through these
lenses can help us to better understand human relationships with
the seas and oceans, and promote an ethic of care for the future.
Mobilities research is now centre stage in the social sciences with
wide-ranging work that considers the politics underscoring the
movements of people and objects, critically examining a world that
is ever on the move. At first glance, the words 'carceral' and
'mobilities' seem to sit uneasily together. This book challenges
the assumption that carceral life is characterised by a lack of
movement. Carceral Mobilities brings together contributions that
speak to contemporary debates across carceral studies and
mobilities research, offering fresh insights to both areas by
identifying and unpicking the manifold mobilities that shape, and
are shaped by, carceral regimes. It features four sections that
move the reader through the varying typologies of motion
underscoring carceral life: tension; circulation; distribution; and
transition. Each mobilities-led section seeks to explore the
politics encapsulated in specific regimes of carceral movement.
With contributions from leading scholars, and a range of
international examples, this book provides an authoritative voice
on carceral mobilities from a variety of perspectives, including
criminology, sociology, history, cultural theory, human geography,
and urban planning. This book offers a first port of call for those
examining spaces of detention, asylum, imprisonment, and
containment, who are increasingly interested in questions of
movement in relation to the management, control, and confinement of
populations.
Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists
of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this
vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography'
directly translates as 'earth writing' and in line with this
definition the discipline has preoccupied itself with the study of
terrestrial spaces of society and nature. This book challenges
human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial, investigating
the terra incognita of the seas and oceans. Linking to new
theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline (such as
affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human),
this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies
of ocean space. The book casts adrift stable, bounded and fixed
conceptions of space and advances geographical understanding based
on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional. This
ontology supports the notion that the oceans are not simply fluid
in a literal way, but also in a conceptual sense, suggesting that
the seas have their own fluid natures - their own capacities and
agencies - which are co-fabricated with social and cultural life.
This book features twelve chapters, authored by key academics
contributing to this growing field of research. The book is divided
into three sections, including an Introduction by the editors and a
foreword by Prof. Philip E. Steinberg, the leading scholar in the
field of maritime geographies. The first section of the book
considers the ways in which different watery spaces from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea have been conceptualized,
theorized and 'known' through metaphors, voyages of discovery and
scientific endeavour. The second section examines how oceans are
experienced; through various activities including driving on water,
kayaking in water and diving under water. The final section
explores the relations between human life and the nature of the sea
as a material, mobile and more-than-human spa
Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists
of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this
vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography'
directly translates as 'earth writing' and in line with this
definition the discipline has preoccupied itself with the study of
terrestrial spaces of society and nature. This book challenges
human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial, investigating
the terra incognita of the seas and oceans. Linking to new
theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline (such as
affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human),
this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies
of ocean space. The book casts adrift stable, bounded and fixed
conceptions of space and advances geographical understanding based
on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional. This
ontology supports the notion that the oceans are not simply fluid
in a literal way, but also in a conceptual sense, suggesting that
the seas have their own fluid natures - their own capacities and
agencies - which are co-fabricated with social and cultural life.
This book features twelve chapters, authored by key academics
contributing to this growing field of research. The book is divided
into three sections, including an Introduction by the editors and a
foreword by Prof. Philip E. Steinberg, the leading scholar in the
field of maritime geographies. The first section of the book
considers the ways in which different watery spaces from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea have been conceptualized,
theorized and 'known' through metaphors, voyages of discovery and
scientific endeavour. The second section examines how oceans are
experienced; through various activities including driving on water,
kayaking in water and diving under water. The final section
explores the relations between human life and the nature of the sea
as a material, mobile and more-than-human spa
The seas and oceans are currently taking centre stage in academic
study and public consciousness. From the plastics littering our
seas, to the role of climate change on ocean currents from unequal
access of marine resources to the treacherous experiences of
seafarers who keep our global economy afloat; now is a crucial time
to examine how we live with the sea. This ambitious book brings
together an interdisciplinary and international cohort of
contributors from within and beyond academia. It offers a range and
diversity of insights unlike previous collections. An 'oceanic
turn' is taking place, with a burgeoning of academic work that
takes seriously the place of seas and oceans in understanding
socio-cultural and political life, past and present. Yet, there is
a significant gap concerning the ways in which we engage with seas
and oceans, with a will to enliven action and evoke change. This
book explores these challenges, offering insights from spatial
planning, architectural design, geography, educational studies,
anthropology and cultural studies. An examination through these
lenses can help us to better understand human relationships with
the seas and oceans, and promote an ethic of care for the future.
We live in a world that is ever on the move, as is increasingly
recognised within research on mobilities. Yet studies of mobility
have failed to 'go to sea' with the same enthusiasm as mobilities
ashore. When we consider mobility, we most often examine those
movements that evidently form part of our everyday lives. We forget
to look outwards to the sea. Yet ships have played - and continue
to play - a significant role in shaping socio-cultural, political
and economic life. This book turns our attention to the manifold
mobilities that occur at sea through an exploration of the
mobilities of ships themselves as well as the movements of objects,
subjects and ideas that are mobilised by ships. The Mobilities of
Ships brings together seven chapters that tack through unexplored
waters and move between diverse case studies, including pirate
ships, naval vessels and luxury yachts. In so doing, The Mobilities
of Ships offers a rich insight into the world of shipping
mobilities past and present. This book was published as a special
issue of Mobilities.
We live in a world that is ever on the move, as is increasingly
recognised within research on mobilities. Yet studies of mobility
have failed to 'go to sea' with the same enthusiasm as mobilities
ashore. When we consider mobility, we most often examine those
movements that evidently form part of our everyday lives. We forget
to look outwards to the sea. Yet ships have played - and continue
to play - a significant role in shaping socio-cultural, political
and economic life. This book turns our attention to the manifold
mobilities that occur at sea through an exploration of the
mobilities of ships themselves as well as the movements of objects,
subjects and ideas that are mobilised by ships. The Mobilities of
Ships brings together seven chapters that tack through unexplored
waters and move between diverse case studies, including pirate
ships, naval vessels and luxury yachts. In so doing, The Mobilities
of Ships offers a rich insight into the world of shipping
mobilities past and present. This book was published as a special
issue of Mobilities.
In 1964, rebel radio stations took to the seas in converted ships
to offer listening choice to a young, resistant audience, against a
backdrop of restrictive broadcasting policies. This book draws on
this exceptional moment in social history, and the decades that
followed, teasing out the relations between sound, society and
space that were central to 'pirate' broadcasting activities. With a
turn towards mediated life in geography, studies of radio have been
largely absent. However, radio remains the most pervasive mass
communications medium. This book breaks new ground, discussing in
depth the relationship between radio, space and society;
considering how space matters in the production, consumption and
regulation of audio transmission, through the geophysical spaces of
sea, land and air. It is relevant for readers interested in
geographies of media, sensory spatial experience, everyday
geopolitics and the turn towards elemental and more-than-human
geographies.
An undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with
geographical research, first-hand. But completing a student project
can be a stressful and complex process. Your Human Geography
Dissertation breaks the task down into three helpful stages:
Designing: Deciding on your approach, your topic and your research
question, and ensuring your project is feasible Doing: Situating
your research and selecting the best methods for your dissertation
project Delivering: Dealing with data and writing up your findings
With information and task boxes, soundbites offering student
insight and guidance, and links to online materials, this book
offers a complete and accessible overview of the key skills needed
to prepare, research, and write a successful human geography
dissertation.
An undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with
geographical research, first-hand. But completing a student project
can be a stressful and complex process. Your Human Geography
Dissertation breaks the task down into three helpful stages:
Designing: Deciding on your approach, your topic and your research
question, and ensuring your project is feasible Doing: Situating
your research and selecting the best methods for your dissertation
project Delivering: Dealing with data and writing up your findings
With information and task boxes, soundbites offering student
insight and guidance, and links to online materials, this book
offers a complete and accessible overview of the key skills needed
to prepare, research, and write a successful human geography
dissertation.
At the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of
terra-land-a surface of fixed points with stable features that can
be calculated, categorised, and controlled. But what of the many
spaces on Earth that defy this simplistic characterisation: Oceans
in which 'places' are continuously re-formed? Air that can never be
fully contained? Watercourses that obtain their value by
transcending boundaries? This book examines the politics of these
spaces to shed light on the challenges of our increasingly dynamic
world. Through a focus on the planet's elements, environments, and
edges, the contributors to Territory beyond Terra extend our
understanding of territory to the dynamic, contentious spaces of
contemporary politics.
At the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of
terra-land-a surface of fixed points with stable features that can
be calculated, categorised, and controlled. But what of the many
spaces on Earth that defy this simplistic characterisation: Oceans
in which 'places' are continuously re-formed? Air that can never be
fully contained? Watercourses that obtain their value by
transcending boundaries? This book examines the politics of these
spaces to shed light on the challenges of our increasingly dynamic
world. Through a focus on the planet's elements, environments, and
edges, the contributors to Territory beyond Terra extend our
understanding of territory to the dynamic, contentious spaces of
contemporary politics.
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