The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities
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The most comprehensive treatment of the emerging discourse of the Blue Humanities to date, this book comprises essays from key figures alongside new voices, creating a navigational map through this new discipline's formulations and possibilities.
Structured around four parts, Discourses, Forms, Networks and Representations, the Handbook begins by establishing the critical discourses and theoretical lenses that shape how we see our planet's water, and the impact of watery thinking on disciplinary knowledge. It ranges across the Indian, Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic and Southern Ocean worlds, recognising oceans as active, connective systems that link people, species, ideas, and materials across time and space. It considers the myriad ways humans encounter water: salty, fresh, frozen or fluid, out in the world or moving within human bodies. It also explores artistic practices that conceptualize human relation to water - visual, sonic, poetic - and the watery imaginings of artists conjuring an immersive encounter to bear witness to historical injustice and a climate crisis that is all too current. Moving beyond Western binaries of colonial representation, the book includes a diverse range of contributions and contributors, making it essential reading for scholars and students of the Blue Humanities.
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Table of Contents
Preface: Sea Legs Anna Iltnere (Sea Library, Latvia)
Introduction: The Blue Humanities in the World, Steve Mentz (St. John's University, USA), Mohammed Muharram (University of Bremen, Germany), Serpil Oppermann (Cappacodica University, Türkiye), and Sandra Young (University of Cape Town, South Africa).
Part I: Discourses
1. Blue Postcolonialism, Mohammed Muharram (University of Bremen, Germany) and Kerstin Knopf (University of Bremen, Germany)
2. Black Hydrologics, Mapule Mohulatsi (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
3. Blue History, Matt McKenzie (University of Connecticut at Avery Point, USA)
4. Blue Philosophy, Melody Jue (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
5. Blue Ecology, Michael Blackstock (Independent Scholar, British Columbia, Canada)
6. Blue Religion, Justine Bakker (Radboud University, the Netherlands)
7. Blue Linguistics, K. David Harrison (Swarthmore College, USA) and Neal Kelso (University of Hawai?i at Manoa, USA)
8. Ocean Laws, Sofie Elise Quist (UiT–Arctic University of Norway, Norway) and Irus Braverman (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
9. Blue Anthropology, Nils Bubant (Aarhus University, Denmark)
10. Hydrofeminism/s, Tamara Sheffer (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) and Vivienne Bozalek (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
Part II: Networks
11. The Indian Ocean, Rila Mukherjee (University of Hyderabad, India)
12. The Atlantic Ocean, Christopher Pastore (SUNY Albany, USA)
13. The Pacific Ocean, Antonio Ortega Santos (University of Grenada, Spain)
14. The Southern Ocean, Charne Lavery (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
15. The Arctic Ocean, Hester Blum (Penn State University, USA)
Part III: Forms
16. The Nonhuman, Simon Estok (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)
17. Currents, Dan Brayton, (Middlebury College, USA)
18. The Surf, Keven Dawson (University of California at Merced, USA)
19. Storms, Alison Maas (University of California at Davis, USA)
20. Clouds and Rain, Alison Glassie (Northeastern University, USA)
21. Ice, Lowell Duckert (University of Delaware, USA)
22. Fresh Water, Ellen Arnold (Ohio State University, USA)
23. The Deep, Laurence Publicover (University of Bristol, UK)
24. Seabeds, Killian Quigley (Australian Capital University, Australia)
25. Coasts and Ports, Isaac Land (Indiana State University, USA)
26. Human Bodies, Adem Balci (Independent Scholar, Türkiye) and Gulsah Gocmen (Aksaray University, Türkiye)
27. Oceanic Feelings, Steve Mentz (St. John's University, USA)
Part IV: Representations
28. Underwater Photography, Margaret Cohen (Stanford University, USA)
29. Blue Acoustics, Stefan Helmreich (MIT, USA)
30. Art in the Suspense, Jaimey Hamilton Faris (University of Hawai'I, USA)
31. Water and Performance, Maurya Wickstrom (CUNY Staten Island, USA)
32. Poetry of Oceania, Craig Santos Perez (Independent Author, Guåhan)
33. Blue Literature, Maria Geustyn (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Meg Samuelson (University of Adelaide, Australia)
34. Indigenous Poetics, Hsinya Huang Huang (National Sun-Yat Sen University, Taiwan)
Conclusion: The Blue Humanities and the Anthropocene, Serpil Oppermann (Cappacodica University, Türkiye)
Product details
| Published | 24 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 560 |
| ISBN | 9781350450721 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 26 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Handbooks |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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