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A Book of Waves

Af: Stefan Helmreich Engelsk Paperback

A Book of Waves

Af: Stefan Helmreich Engelsk Paperback
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In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materiality through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language these avatars of nature at once periodic and irreversible, wild and pacific, ephemeral and eternal. For researchers and their publics, the meanings of waves also reflect visions of the ocean as an environmental infrastructure fundamental to trade, travel, warfare, humanitarian rescue, recreation, and managing sea level rise. Interleaving ethnographic chapters with reflections on waves in mythology, surf culture, feminist theory, film, Indigenous Pacific activisms, Black Atlantic history, cosmology, and more, Helmreich demonstrates how waves mark out the wakes and breaks of social histories and futures.
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In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materiality through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language these avatars of nature at once periodic and irreversible, wild and pacific, ephemeral and eternal. For researchers and their publics, the meanings of waves also reflect visions of the ocean as an environmental infrastructure fundamental to trade, travel, warfare, humanitarian rescue, recreation, and managing sea level rise. Interleaving ethnographic chapters with reflections on waves in mythology, surf culture, feminist theory, film, Indigenous Pacific activisms, Black Atlantic history, cosmology, and more, Helmreich demonstrates how waves mark out the wakes and breaks of social histories and futures.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN-13: 9781478020417
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1478020415
Udg. Dato: 4 aug 2023
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 232mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: Duke University Press
Oplagsdato: 4 aug 2023
Forfatter(e): Stefan Helmreich
Forfatter(e) Stefan Helmreich


Kategori Social- & Kulturantropologi


ISBN-13 9781478020417


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 432


Udgave


Længde 27mm


Bredde 232mm


Højde 152mm


Udg. Dato 4 aug 2023


Oplagsdato 4 aug 2023


Forlag Duke University Press

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