Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Violent but slow changes to marine climates and blue biodiversity, to warming oceans and coastal areas have been understood as nested problems in need of increased scientific and technological solutions. Instead, this chapter begins from the position that these interlinked problems of human environmental impact on oceans and coastal areas require connected, affective, and cultural studies-informed approaches of a more-than-human arts (a posthumanities put to practice) to complement scientific insight on how to commune better with the sea. Human-induced impacts range from ocean warming and acidification, loss of biodiversity, eutrophication, and marine pollution to local degradation of coastal environments and habitats. In order to deal with the nested challenges of such oceanic environmental violence in terms of consumption and grief, Åsberg and Radomska discuss four cases of coastal and marine slow violence from their Scandinavian “backyard” with the purpose of storying exposures and providing counter-narratives on how to reinvent our consumerist ocean imaginary. From diverse locations in the field and in research, the authors have developed what is here referred to as “low trophic theory,” which is to say a situated local stance that attends to entanglements of cultural theory, food practice, affect and grief, violence, more-than-human humanities, multispecies ethics, and the oceanic consumer imaginary. In this way, Åsberg and Radomska combine field-philosophical case studies with insights from marine science, eco-art, and cultural practices in the Baltic and North Sea regions to develop analytical notions for the practices and theories of feminist posthumanities.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Authors: Cecilia Åsberg, Marietta Radomska
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Life below water
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4388658596