Routledge Handbook of Critical Ocean Studies

This handbook provides a path-breaking overview of the rapidly developing field of critical ocean studies. It is the first cross-disciplinary and in-depth account of critical ocean studies. While the academic application of critical analysis to ocean, coastal, and island studies has been expanding in recent decades, studies are fragmented across disciplines and publishing venues. This handbook brings together perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, arts, and other ways of knowing to identify key insights from the diverse and dynamic field of critical ocean studies. Organized into three sections covering themes of concepts, criticisms and agency, it examines ways in which researchers enhance understanding of environmental and social relationships and injustices in and around the ocean. This handbook will invite critical analysis and shape research agendas to meet the demands of new knowledge and a changing world. Routledge Handbook of Critical Ocean Studies will be of interest to scholars from across disciplines. By engaging a wide range of perspectives on critical ocean studies, it will serve as an excellent resource for graduate students, interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners. This handbook identifies emerging research opportunities in critical ocean studies and encourages students and researchers to apply insights from this field to better understand and address environmental and social problems.

Paul Foley is a Professor in the Environmental Policy Institute and the School of Science and the Environment at Memorial University's Grenfell Campus, Canada. Jennifer J. Silver is a Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Guelph, Canada.

- Introduction: What Is Critical Ocean Studies? SECTION 1: CONCEPTS 2. The Waters We Belong To 3. Shoreline Sonics: A Relational Disorientation Of Closeness 4. Dwelling At Sea: Offshore Human Habitats 5. Reclamation 6. Maritime Borders 7. Offshore Energy 8. Ocean Data Infrastructures: Revealing The Dynamics Of Ocean Governance 9. Understanding Ocean In The Planetocene SECTION 2: CRITICISMS 10. Between Rhetoric And The Deep Blue Sea: John Wyndham's Kraken Wakes 11. Sound And A Relational Approach To Ocean Space 12. Enclosures And Oceans 13. Extractivisms 14. Vulnerability And Coloniality In The Pacific 15. Poached Djinns And The Hydrocolonization Of Kenyan Coastal Waters 16. Intersectionality In Critical Ocean Studies 17. Black Feminist Approaches To Understanding Deep-Sea Mining As Racial Extractivism That Thwarts Climate Progress SECTION 3: AGENCY 18. Seabirds, Seafarers, And Navigation Beyond Charts 19. Lively Seascape Ecologies: From Vulnerability To Abundance In Coastal Communities 20. Oceans As A Workspace 21. Large Oceanic States 22. Geopolitics And Marine Conservation 23. Making Sense Of Actors In Oceans Governance 24. Cinematic Oceans: Mediation And Meanings Of Seawater 25. Critical Ocean Studies Outside The Academy: Challenges And Opportunities For Policy Engagement