Currents, visions and voyages: historical geographies of the sea

Lambert, David; Martins, Luciana; Ogborn, Miles

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2005.10.004

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“…… The sea and the land in which we dwell furnish theatres for action, limited for limited actions and vast for grander deeds" (in Steinberg, 1999, page 368). As the "source of all things" and the "maternal sublime" (Lambert et al, 2006), the ocean locates ideas about amphibian origin and belonging of humans. The 'oceanic feeling' referred to by Freud (1930) and traced to Sanskrit beginnings captures a spiritual origin, or 'Nirvana principle', described as a "subterranean source of religious energy" (Parsons, 1989, pages 501-503).…”

Section: Undersea Worlds: Myth Monsters and Cyborgsmentioning

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Diving with Donna Haraway and the Promise of a Blue Planet

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Ferguson

2014

Environ Plan D

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It has been two decades since Haraway spoke about the 'promise of monsters', and seventy years since a novel kind of sea monster was created through the Aqua-Lung, giving 'underwater worlds' better access to humans. By revisiting and examining the combinatory effects of these historical moments, this paper illustrates the 'promise of scuba divers' who are somewhat monstrous in their potential to disturb common ideas about being human and life on land. In exchanging 'sacred ground' for submersion beneath the sea, scuba diving redefines the limits of human experience and emphasises the historical and largely forgotten primacy of land-based coordinates in theorising human life. Under the sea, these coordinates are vastly altered so that even preconscious markers, like breathing, are transformed through a circuitry that includes humans, science, technology, and nature in a 'body-incorporate'. 'Immersion' becomes a threshold beyond which humans and nature, society and space are discovered anew in the reversal of the significance of territory to planetary life.

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Section: Undersea Worlds: Myth Monsters and Cyborgsmentioning

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Diving with Donna Haraway and the Promise of a Blue Planet

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Ferguson

2014

Environ Plan D

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“…During this time, they often turn to the lagoons for fishing (particularly prawn fishing), or to other sources of income, such as making and selling jewelry or cultivating paddy fields. The fisherfolk, then, do not only occupy the archetypically liminal space of the beach, but also regularly embody the meeting of the practices of the land and sea (Lambert et al, 2006;Westerdahl 2005). It is therefore important to note that land and sea are not distinctly oppositional; rather they have the potential to intimately and immanently relate to one another (Connery, 2006).…”

Section: The Ocean As An Actor In the Everydaymentioning

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“…Legends and myths about the ocean abound in popular culture and can serve as a powerftil indicator of its importance (Connery, 2006;Lambert et al, 2006). In my quest to understand the cultural significance of the sea in Batticaloa, I asked the fisherfolk repeatedly if they had any stories about the sea, any myths or legends that featured the ocean, yet they always told me that they did not.…”

Section: The Ocean As An Actor In the Everydaymentioning

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Relating to the Sea: Enlivening the Ocean as an Actor in Eastern Sri Lanka

Lehman

2013

Environ Plan D

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Elements deemed part of 'nature' or the 'environment' have long been considered factors in political and social realities, but recent work by environmental historians, feminists, poststructuralists, and particularly posthumanists calls for them to be understood as actors. In this paper I build a case for considering the ocean as an actor on Sri Lanka's east coast, by bringing concepts around relationality and nonhuman agency into conversation with social theories of the sea and with the lived experiences of coastal residents. The ocean occupies a dynamic and central role on Sri Lanka's East coast, as demonstrated through daily practices and its centrality in the area's armed conflict, as well as by the devastation wreaked by the 2004 tsunami. By understanding the ocean as an actor it is possible to gain insight into the intersections of various phenomena, such as armed conflict and natural disaster, and to amplify the voices of those who occupy space closest to those intersections.

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“…Moreover, geographers have begun to attend to the ship-a site traditionally overlooked given the heightened importance of the terrestrial in geographic study (Hasty and Peters 2012). Scholars have contended that considerations of ships, at sea, open up new spatial imaginaries not possible by looking only inwards to the land (Lambert, Martins and Ogborn 2006). Arguably the ship complicates existing geographical studies relating to the spatialities of incarceration because it encapsulates a host of (im)mobilities that differ from conventional forms of 'landed' imprisonment such as the island (as previously described) and the conventional prison.…”

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Between crime and colony: interrogating (im)mobilities aboard the convict ship

Peters

Turner

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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Recent literature in carceral geography has attended to the importance of mobilities in interrogating the experience and control of spaces of imprisonment, detention and confinement. Scholars have explored the paradoxical nature of incarcerated experience as individuals oscillate between moments of fixity and motion as they are transported to/from carceral environments. This paper draws upon the convict ship-an example yet to gain attention within these emerging discussions-which is both an exemplar of this paradox and a lens through which to complicate understandings of carceral (im)mobilities. The ship is a space of macro-movement from point A to B, whilst simultaneously a site of apparent confinement for those aboard who are unable to move beyond its physical parameters. Yet, we contend that all manner of mobilities permeate the internal space of the ship. Accordingly, we challenge the binary thinking that separates moments of fixity from motion and explore the constituent parts that shape movement. In paying attention to movements in motion on the 2 ship, we argue that studies of carceral mobility must attend to both methods of moving in the space between points A and B; as micro, embodied and intimate (im)mobilities are also played out within large-scale regimes of movement.

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Currents, visions and voyages: historical geographies of the sea

Cited by 107 publications

References 38 publications

Diving with Donna Haraway and the Promise of a Blue Planet

Diving with Donna Haraway and the Promise of a Blue Planet

Relating to the Sea: Enlivening the Ocean as an Actor in Eastern Sri Lanka

Between crime and colony: interrogating (im)mobilities aboard the convict ship

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