The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space

Peters, Kimberley; Anderson, Jon; Davies, Andrew; Steinberg, Philip E.

doi:10.4324/9781315111643

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“…As the seas continue to exert their pull, attracting tourists unafraid of spending extra dollars on their marine getaways, visionary entrepreneurs keen on exploiting the potential of a unique brand, bold architects unafraid of challenges or oversize budgets, or political visionaries seeking to build a modern‐day Atlantis, geographers will be called upon to visit and make sense of new underwater spaces. Influenced by the already burgeoning literature on ocean spaces (see Peters et al., 2022) and voluminous spaces (Billé, 2020), geographers will be required to make sense of what DeLoughrey (2017) calls the submarine futures of the Anthropocene.…”

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The past, present, and future of underwater spaces: From tourist experiences to the possibility of habitation

Vannini

2024

Geography Compass

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This paper reviews contemporary geography literature pertaining to the development and experience of underwater spaces. Examining the underwater world as a space of practices, experiences, and visions that are both phenomenologically and geopolitically rich, the review covers research studies from human geography and cognate fields concentrating on the tourism and travel literature. After a brief overview of the many activities taking place underwater worldwide—from the evolution of the mythical Atlantis to the development of modern‐day Atlantis such as underwater hotels—the paper focuses studies in three areas: the consumption of cultural and natural heritage, Self‐contained underwater breathing apparatus diving and divers' experiences, and the possibility of human inhabitation of underwater realms in habitats such as underwater hotels and submarine research sites. It is argued that by becoming more familiar with underwater spaces, geographers who concentrate on tourism and marine environments can gain new perspectives that are likely to challenge the terrestrial imagination.

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The past, present, and future of underwater spaces: From tourist experiences to the possibility of habitation

Vannini

2024

Geography Compass

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“…In this paper we set off from the fixed points of the Pauline and the Alfa Italia to examine the shape of a now established sub‐disciplinary field: ‘human geographies of the sea’ (Anderson & Peters, 2014; Peters et al., 2022; Steinberg, 2001). Within this area, shipping—past, present and future—is perhaps the most prominent area of concern.…”

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“…Work has also focused on the (geo)political dimensions of oceans (Childs, 2020; Dittmer, 2021; Dunnavant, 2021; Squire, 2021 to name but a few) and the geographical aspects of ocean management (Boucquey et al., 2019; Gray, 2018; Jay, 2018, amongst other scholarship). In a recently published Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space (Peters et al., 2022), however, not a single chapter showcases quantitative oceanic research. The book reflects well, the shape of oceanic world within human geographies.…”

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“…It is also a substantial ‘subsidiary’ theme in critical work on globalisation, colonialism, labour practices, resource geography and the history of geographical knowledge (to name but a few areas). Other research areas or topics are of course covered under the thematic umbrella of ‘human geographies of the sea’ (including human embodied engagements with oceans and studies of more‐than‐human worlds, see Peters et al., 2022 for an overview). Within what is a significant corpus of work on shipping, however, such work is primarily qualitatively driven.…”

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Positioning possibilities for human geographies of the sea: Automatic Identification Systems and its role in spatialising understandings of shipping

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Peters

2024

Geography Compass

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This paper positions possibilities for human geographies of the sea. The growing volume of work under this banner has been largely qualitative in its approach, reflecting, in turn, the questions posed by oceanic scholars. These questions necessitate corresponding methods. Whilst this is not necessarily a problem, and the current corpus of work has offered many significant contributions, in making sense of the human dimensions of maritime worlds, other questions—and methods—may generate knowledge that is useful within this remit of work. This paper considers the place of quantitative approaches in posing lines of enquiry about shipping, one of the prominent areas of concern under the banner of ‘human geographies of the seas’. There is longstanding work in transport geographies concerned with shipping, logistics, freight movement and global connections, which embraces quantitative methods which could be bridged to ask fresh questions about oceanic spatial phenomena past and present. This paper reviews the state of the art of human geographies of the sea and transport geographies and navigates how the former field may be stimulated by some of the interests of the latter and a broader range of questions about society‐sea‐space relations. The paper focuses on Automatic Identification Systems (or AIS) as a potentially useful tool for connecting debates, and deepening spatial understandings of the seas and shipping beyond current scholarship. To advance the argument the example of shipping layups is used to illustrate or rather, position, the point.

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“…Indigenous, Black, Brown, and Southern intellectual traditions are energizing, "enriching" and decolonizing contemporary environmental scholarship on ocean spaces, oceanic justice, and oceanic futures in the western academy (Carter 2019;DeLoughrey 2019;Peters et al 2022;Pugh and Chandler 2021). This innovative scholarship, at the fluid intersections of Geography (Physical and Human), Critical Ocean Studies, and the Environmental Humanities, focuses on wet ontologies of place and archipelagic conceptualizations of governance, that draw on the pivotal work of Edouard Glissant, Epeli Hau'ofa, and Kamau Braithwaite, among others.…”

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Decolonizing ocean spaces: Saltwater co-belonging and responsibilities

Lobo

Parsons

2023

Progress in Environmental Geography

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Oceans in the colonial Anthropocene are haunted by the brutal racial logics of slavery, indenture, plunder, violence, death, and multispecies extinction. This brutality manifested through uneven burdens of climate extremes, global warming, ocean acidification, sea level rise, pollution, and threats from offshore energy extraction, chokes the “life force” of oceans that sustain planetary belongings and futures. Global agreements on climate change, biodiversity conventions, sustainable goals, and laws of the sea increasingly attempt to transform dystopic planetary futures through openness to Indigenous and local knowledges. But these overlooked Indigenous, Black, Brown, and southern intellectual traditions of belonging and responsibility in settler colonial, postcolonial, and post-apartheid societies have always existed alongside white, western Euro-American ontologies of the ocean. As subaltern southern and Indigenous scholars, our privileging of ontologies of the ocean amid the racial, colonial, and capitalist logics that continues to suffocate people and the planet, seeks to do more than enrich white, western, English-speaking Euro-American institutions. We, therefore, face ethical dilemmas as we assemble and prioritize strands of literature in our decolonial, polyphonic place-based ocean storytelling that seeks to advance new directions in Environmental Geography.

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The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

The past, present, and future of underwater spaces: From tourist experiences to the possibility of habitation

The past, present, and future of underwater spaces: From tourist experiences to the possibility of habitation

Positioning possibilities for human geographies of the sea: Automatic Identification Systems and its role in spatialising understandings of shipping

Decolonizing ocean spaces: Saltwater co-belonging and responsibilities

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