Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean

215 Pages·2014·1.91 MB·English

by  Jon Anderson

Water Worlds:
Human GeoGrapHies of tHe ocean
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Water Worlds:
Human Geographies of the ocean

edited by
Jon anderson
Cardiff University, UK
and
Kimberley peters
Aberystwyth University, UK
© Jon anderson, Kimberley peters, and contributors 2014
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
anderson, Jon, 1973–
Water worlds : human geographies of the ocean / by Jon anderson and Kimberley peters.
pages cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-5051-1 (hardback: alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-4094-5052-8 (ebook)—
ISBN 978-1-4724-0377-3 (epub)
1. Human geography. 2. oceanography. i. title.
Gf41.a476 2014
910.9162—dc23
2013031531
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword: On Thalassography xiii
IntroductIon
1 ‘A perfect and absolute blank’: Human Geographies of Water Worlds 3
Jon Anderson and Kimberley Peters
Part I ocean Knowledges: understandIng
the water world
2 Mediterranean Metaphors: Travel, Translation and Oceanic Imaginaries
in the ‘New Mediterraneans’ of the Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean 23
Philip E. Steinberg
3 ‘Plenty of Weeds & Penguins’: Charting Oceanic Knowledge 39
Anne-Flore Laloë
4 Geographies of Coral Reef Conservation:
Global Trends and Environmental Constructions 51
Bärbel G. Bischof
5 Merging with the Medium? Knowing the Place of the Surfed Wave 73
Jon Anderson
Part II ocean exPerIences: embodIed Performances,
PractIces and emotIons
6 The Day We Drove on the Ocean (and Lived to Tell the Tale About It):
Of Deltas, Ice Roads, Waterscapes and Other Meshworks 89
Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart
vi Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean
7 What I Talk About When I Talk About Kayaking 103
Jon Anderson
8 Deep Ethnography: Witnessing the Ghosts of SS Thistlegorm 119
Stephanie Merchant
Part III ocean natures: mobIlItIes and
more-than-human concerns
9 Sustaining Livelihoods: Mobility and Governance in the
Senegalese Atlantic 135
Juliette Hallaire and Deirdre McKay
10 Governance of the Seas: A More-Than-Human Perspective
on the Cardigan Bay Scallop Fishery 147
Christopher Bear
11 ‘With perfect regularity throughout’: More-Than-Human Geographies
of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 163
Anyaa Anim-Addo
12 Taking More-Than-Human Geographies to Sea: Ocean Natures
and Offshore Radio Piracy 177
Kimberley Peters
Index 193
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
F.1 Volume of Earth’s water compared to the total volume of Earth. xiv
3.1 UKHO Survey C.138. The Track of His Majesty’s Sloop
Ship Julia, Jenkin Jones Esqr. Commander, in search of the
Island of St Matthew, 1817. Reproduced in part from the
collections of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. 42
3.2 KHO OCB. 357 A. 1: A Chart of the Ethiopic or Southern
Ocean, and part of the Pacific Ocean; from the Parallel of 3
degrees North to 56° 20’ South Latitude and from 20° East
to 90’ West Longitude drawn from the latest observations
of the Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Astronomers, shewing
the track of the Warley, East Indiaman, outward and homeward
in the years 1805 & 6, 1808. Reproduced in part from the
collections of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. 45
3.3 UKHO Survey Z1 (shelf Hf): Carta Esferica del Oceano
Meridional desde el Equador haste 60 grados de latitud y desde
el Cabo de Hornos hasta el Canal de Mozambique construida
de orden del rey en la dirreccion de trabajos hidrographicos y
presentada á S. M. por mano del excmo. señor Don Antonio
Cornel, Descretario de Estado, y del Despacho Universal
de Guerra, encargado del de Marina, y de la direccion
general de la Armada, año de 1800. Reproduced in part from
the collections of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. 46
4.1 Geographic distribution of reefs by region. 54
4.2 Reef area under threat by region. 55
4.3 Distribution, in percent, of the 275 million estimated people
within 30 kilometres of a coral reef. 59
11.1 ‘Wreck of the Royal Mail “Rhone”’, by William Frederick
Mitchell © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK. 171
Table
4.1 The dominant attitudes revealed by the Q-study factor analysis. 64
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Notes on Contributors
Jon Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Planning and
Geography, Cardiff University, UK. His research focuses on the relations between
culture, place, and identity. He is particularly interested in the geographies, politics
and practices that such relations produce. Jon has published widely in the fields
of environmental action, qualitative methodology and most notably a textbook
Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces (Routledge 2010). Further
information on his work can be found at www.spatialmanifesto.com.
Anyaa Anim-Addo is Lecturer in Caribbean History at the University of Leeds.
She has research interests in the maritime world, the politics of mobility, and
race and gender in the post-emancipation era. Publications include ‘“A wretched
and slave-like mode of labour”: slavery, emancipation and the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company’s coaling stations,’ Historical Geography 39 (2011), 65–84; and
‘Steaming between the islands: nineteenth-century maritime networks and the
Caribbean archipelago,’ Island Studies 8:1 (forthcoming).
Christopher Bear is Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Planning
and Geography, Cardiff University, UK. His research focuses on human-animal-
technology relations and geographies of knowledge and expertise. Much of his work
has an aquatic focus and has encompassed studies of recreational angling, commercial
fisheries and an aquarium. Most recently, he has completed an ESRC-funded project
about the introduction of robotic milking technologies to the UK dairy sector.
Bärbel G. Bischof is a visiting Assistant Professor at Stetson University in Florida,
U.S. Her research is focused on understanding the responses and connections
of scientific discourse to constructions of environmental facts in ocean space.
Framing ocean space in a geographic perspective in order to understand ecosystem
management and human-nature interactions, she also serves as an Editorial Board
Member of the Journal of Ocean & Coastal Management.
Juliette Hallaire is a PhD candidate at Keele University, UK, working on
environment-induced migration, fishermen’s mobility and maritime border
experiences. She has been conducting in-depth field studies within local fishing
communities in Senegal, developing a critical interdisciplinary approach between
human geography, politics, mobility studies and maritime geographies. She
graduated with a Masters in Geography at the University of Paris-IV/Sorbonne in
2007. From 2008 to 2010 she worked as a research assistant in migration-related
programs in international organizations and NGOs in Colombia.