Rasmus Rodineliussen

Broschiertes Buch

Underwater Worlds

An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life

Beschreibung

This book investigates relations between humans, waste, pollution, and marine life. It introduces the concept of Aquabiopolitics as a means to understand how humans govern life in water in order to enrich human life on land. The study focuses on the Baltic Sea and Lake Mälaren, using Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, as the connection point. Throughout the book, the author explores how human practices over time have had devastating effects on marine life and continue to have so today. The book engages with the marine world through underwater ethnography to provide a perspective on water from below the surface. In this endeavor, it tracks marine scientists and trash scuba divers who are jointly invested in tracking human maltreatment of water and finding solutions for treating water differently in the future. It follows the scientists on expeditions at sea and to their laboratories in order to learn about their methods and relations to underwater worlds. Together with the trash scuba divers, we will dive into the dark murky waters around Stockholm-experiencing what it is like to move below water, among sharp and toxic waste, without any visibility. The work of creating a knowing and caring relationship between humans and water is of key importance to both scientists and divers. Therefore, one of the main parts of this book is to analyze how, and if, this relationship can be created: via social media, images, installations, or other means.

Autor

Rasmus Rodineliussen, Ph.D., Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, has published in a number of peer-reviewed journals such as Anthropology Now, Visual Studies, Anthrovision, Irish Journal of Anthropology, Kritisk etnografi, and has two entries in SAGE Research Methods and Doing Research Online. Rasmus is also co-editor for the award-winning journal the Anthropology Book Forum.

Produktdetails

• Sustainable Development Goals Series
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89510195, 978-3-031-63372-0
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9783031633720
• ISBN-10: 3031633725
• Artikelnr.: 75154770

Rezensionen

Rasmus Rodineliussen's Undenvater Worlds is a vivid and thought-provoking ethnography that plunges into the complex entanglements of underwater waste, pollution, marine life, and our recognitions. This book offers a timely reflection on how we manage and respond to human-induced changes in marine ecosystems. ... Undenvater Worlds makes it an essential read for those interested in marine anthropology and the politics of environmental contamination. (Jakkrit Sangkhamanee, Anthropology Book Forum, March 11, 2025)