Blue Humanities

Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene

Serpil Oppermann (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-39327-0 (ISBN)

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By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet's troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls for transdisciplinary cooperation and encourages thinking with water and thinking together beyond the conventions of tentacular anthropocentric thought. Working across many disciplines, the blue humanities, then, challenges the cultural primacy of standard sea and freshwater narratives and promotes disanthropocentric discourses about water ecologies. Engaging with the most pressing water problems, this Element contributes to those new discursive practices from a material ecocritical perspective. The authors' hypothesis is that fluid-storied matter and the new stories we tell can change the game by changing our mindset.

Introduction; 1. The Blue Humanities: Crisscrossing Boundaries; 2. Troubled Seas: Oceanic Imagination; 3. Troubled Seas: Scientific Accounts; 4. Distressed Freshwaters; 5. Epilogue.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Environmental Humanities
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	133 g
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-009-39327-8 / 1009393278
ISBN-13	978-1-009-39327-0 / 9781009393270
Zustand	Neuware