Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care

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Why read Sustaining Seas? It is as simple as this: the seas sustain all life. This edited book emerges from conversations across several disciplines, and including practitioners of different specialities (artists, writers, planners, policy makers) about how to sustain the seas, as they sustain us. Sustaining Seas: Oceanic space and the politics of care aims to build a better understanding of what it means to care for aquatic places and their biocultural communities. The book is truly interdisciplinary and brings together a wide range of authors including, academics from diverse fields (architecture, science, cultural studies, law), artists, fisheries managers, and Indigenous Traditional Owners. It provides readers with new theoretical framings, as well as grounded case studies with a wide geographical and cultural breadth. This book assumes that understanding complexity, including social, cultural, ecological and economic interconnections, is crucial to any solution. Sustaining the seas is one of the most pressing global challenges for the planet and all her inhabitants. How to do justice to this challenge is an exigency for all scholars, and how to represent the oceans is a guiding theme in the book that is addressed by scholars, artists, and practitioners. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction SECTION 1: PRACTICES OF CARE 1 Oceanic Regime Shift • Lesley Green 2 “The Sea Is Empty”: Fishers, Migrants, and a Watery Humanism • Elspeth Probyn 3 Speculative Harbouring at Blackwattle Bay: Interdisciplinary Pedagogies and the Politics of Care • Kate Johnston and Susanne Pratt 4 Caring for the Tuna of the Western Indian Ocean: Where Politics and Ecology Meet • Mialy Andriamahefazafy, Christian A. Kull, Pamima Leste, Patsy Theresine, and Safina Echa SECTION 2: FISH AS FOOD: CONSUMING AND SUSTAINING 5 The Multiple Meanings of Fish: Policy Disconnections in Australian Seafood Governance • Sonia Garcia Garcia, Kate Barclay, and Rob Nicholls 6 What Is a Fresh Fish?: Knowledge and Lived Experience in the United Kingdom and Portugal • Monica Truninger, João Afonso Baptista, David M. Evans, Peter Jackson, and Nádia Carvalho Nunes 7 Late Nights and Live Tanks: Entanglements of Caring at Golden Century • Nancy Lee 8 Catfish: Halal, Green, or Disgusting? Investigating Practices of Traditional Farming and Care in Indonesia • Arum Budiastuti 9 Free Fish Heads: A Case Study of Knowing and Practicing Seafood Differently • Emma L. Sharp SECTION 3: GOVERNING AND REGULATING THE OCEANS 10 Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Challenge of Regulating High Seas Fisheries • Rosemary Rayfuse 11 Participatory Processes as Twenty-First-Century Social Knowledge Technology: Metaphors and Narratives at Work • Erena Le Heron, Richard Le Heron, June Logie, Alison Greenaway, Will Allen, Paula Blackett, Kate Davies, Bruce Glavovic, and Daniel Hikuroa 12 When Penalizing Harm Propagates Harm: Rethinking Marine Resource Law Enforcement and Relations from South Africa • Marieke Norton 13 The Protection of Small-Scale Fisheries in Global Policymaking through Food Sovereignty • Alana Mann SECTION 4: EMBODYING THE MARINE 14 The Sea and the Breathing • Astrida Neimanis (words) and Janet Laurence (artwork) 15 We Drain East to the Pacific: Or, a Sydney-Centric Theoretical Description of Anthropocene Stormwater Drainage • Jennifer Mae Hamilton 16 Toxic Bloom: Remaking William Hunter’s Obstetric Illustration to Represent the Epigenetic Toxification of Bodies • Clare Nicholson 17 Looking for Skin, Finding Kin • Kassandra Bossell SECTION 5: LIVING HUMAN AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS 18 Operation Crayweed: Merging Art and Science to Restore Underwater Forests • Adriana Vergés, Michaelie Crawford, Lana Kajlich, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli, Alexandra Söderlund, Peter D. Steinberg, Jennifer Turpin, Georgina Wood, and Alexandra H. Campbell 19 Buoyant Ecologies: Interspecies Cooperation for Sea Level Rise Adaptation • Adam Marcus 20 South Korean Reef Metropolis • Amaia Sánchez-Velasco, Jorge Valiente Oriol, and Gonzalo Valiente 21 Living Breakwaters: SCAPE Landscape Architecture • SCAPE Landscape Architecture 22 Sustaining the Seas through Interdisciplinary Songwriting • Kim Williams, Sarah M. Hamylton, Lucas Ihlein, and Leah Gibbs SECTION 6: THINKING WITH SEAS 23 The Sea Is Time: Contestations of Temporality in J. P. Clark-Bekederemo’s The Raft • Henry Obi Ajumeze 24 Thinking from the Southern Ocean • Charne Lavery Index About the Authors and Artists