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A book of waves / Stefan Helmreich

Helmreich, Stefan, 1966- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2023

xix, 411 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme Karten

Englisch

From the waterwolf to the sand motor : domesticating waves in the Netherlands -- Flipping the ship : oriented knowledge, media, and waves in the field, Scripps Institution of Oceanography -- Waves to order and disorder : making and breaking scale models inside and outside the lab, from Oregon to Japan -- World wide waves, in silico : computer memory, ocean memory, and version control in the global data stack -- Wave theory, southern theory : disorienting planetary oceanic futures, Indian Ocean.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: A book of waves / Helmreich, Stefan (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-4780-2041-7 (paperback); 978-1-4780-1994-7 (hardcover)

978-1-4780-2453-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

OCoLC: 1401177104     

LC 51000  | MS 9000      Ähnliche Literatur

GF65

304.209162

Basisklassifikation: 38.90 (Ozeanologie; Ozeanographie) ; 73.00 (Ethnologie: Allgemeines)

bisacsh: SOC002010

*Meereswelle ; Kulturanthropologie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Human ecology ; Ocean and civilization ; Ocean waves -- Climatic factors ; Sea level -- Social aspects ; Ocean -- Philosophy

"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"--