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These attributes form the basis of a critically constructive examination that enlivens contemporary sociological debates about human-nature relations in contemporary contexts. Methodologically, by attending to social life in a forcefully interactive space like the ocean, this book draws upon contemporary social theory to provide a relationally material account of society when it cannot avoid the indifference of non-humans.Sociologically, it is the first to investigate the importance and limitations of land to established ideas about human identity and social life.Substantially, it is the first to undertake a sociological analysis of underwater worlds and to develop an understanding about how these are performed and their transformative capacities.This book is distinctive in possessing three unique attributes: With cases spanning offshore CancĂșn, through to Florida Keys and the Maldives, to occupied France in WWII and Swiss engineering in Dubai, this book traces the way in which people have begun to be interpolated by life beneath the sea, with the explicit aim of composing the beginnings of a blue sociology. All of these are forging new cultural economies, new social worlds and human experiences that have not yet been assembled in such a way that their effects can begin to be understood or anticipated. These are no longer dreams but are developing at pace in both the global north and south culminating in the construction of self supporting underwater habitats in anticipation of climatic induced transformation and need for alternative living space. Undersea is also host to elaborate and unprecedented levels of underwater development as the built environment is also being seeded undersea in underwater museums, art galleries and hotels. The 21st century has witnessed an explosion in underwater imagery, in scuba diving as one of the fastest growing recreational pursuits and in aquaria, penetrating everyday spaces or else much bigger spaces, holding entire undersea ecosystems on land. As an emergent social space and field of inquiry, undersea is highly instructional in the social life of extreme environments and, conversely, the less extreme conditions of life on land that are taken for granted. This book provides an opportunity for scholars in the human sciences and educated readers more generally to familiarise themselves with a social space that is truly emergent, not yet properly invented or constructed, but gaining importance as life on a blue planet is more fully considered. These are now understood as serious contenders in climate change solutions, as spaces of refuge in the face of environmental extremes and uncertainty on land. The book is also timely, since never before has there been such interest in, and earnest contemplation of, undersea worlds. This book illustrates this position by demonstrating how forays into ocean space not only construct new relationships between humans and nature and new experiential dimensions, but also highlight the primacy of land-based co-ordinates in theorising ourselves and apprehending our place in the world. Theories about society are, by default, theories about the conditions of life on land and this statement appears utterly banal until a social life beneath the sea is contemplated. 2006) and subject to a land bias (Peters 2010) that has not only limited its utility in explanations of ocean space, but also denied it a laboratory with the potential to unlock established habits of thought.
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Consequently, sociology remains land-locked (Lambert et al. While marine-related sciences, archaeologists, geographers, historians and cultural theorists have become active in bringing oceans to the fore, there is no sociological work that attempts to do this.
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Oceans remain among the least measured, formatted and socialised spaces on Earth (Latour 2005). Oceans, Space and Society: Towards a Blue Sociology Felicity Picken, Palgrave Macmillan Press.