Blueish Entanglements and Transformations

Unfolding the Geographies of Wet Spaces and their Role for Societal Change
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-07121-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Planetary Spaces Series

This book explores blueish geographies: new ways of thinking with ‘wet’ space through a porous and open conceptualisation. Through critical ocean thinking, more-than-wet ontologies, blue humanities, blue economy and planning, the diverse chapters think the blueish as extension, relation and representation of water, extending the field and questioning its absences.

The book offers an original and interdisciplinary contribution to critical ocean and marine studies by expanding the ‘disciplines’ vocabularies, debates, possibilities, epistemologies and methodologies. By bringing together diverse critical perspectives on wet spaces, politics and their excess, this book provides new conceptual and methodological tools for understanding temporalities and counter-archives, more-than-human ecologies and possible future plannings. Combining established and early-career scholars from different disciplines and regions, the volume advances current debates in critical geography and ocean studies while remaining accessible for teaching and other applied purposes.

Blueish Entanglements and Transformations is intended for scholars, researchers and students in the field of critical ocean geographies, more-than-human geographies, maritime studies, hydrosocial studies, blue humanities, blue economy, political ecology and related water-related disciplines. It should also appeal to non-research readers working on water related policies, development and planning.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Albrecht, Moritz

Palermo, Gabriella

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Blueish Geographies, Entanglements and Transformations 2. Oceans Adrift: On the Seychelles' Blue Economy Agenda and the Unbounding of the Boundary Object 3. Just Blue Economy? Rural Development, Fisheries and Sustainability in the Case of Dunmore East, Waterford Ireland 4. Assembling an Alternative Seaweed Moment at the Margins of Blue Economy Trajectories: Small-Scale, Wild Harvest Community Transformations in Yogyakarta Region, Indonesia 5. The Blue Crab as a Lively Archive, or Following the Turbulence of Portunus Segnis Across the Kerkennah Islands in the Post-Suez Era 6. Listening-With Intersecting Oceanic Temporalities – Holding, Dis/Inviting, Repairing 7. Blueish Plannings: Clashing Fluidities, Volumes and Narratives in Palermo's Waterfront 8. Transformative Temporalities: Poetic Planning With Mandø 9. Cyclone Gabrielle's Transformative Effects in Aotearoa New Zealand 10. Timescapes, Territorialisation of the Sea, and (De)Growth in Turbulent Crises: Perspectives From an Island

Über Autor(innen)

Moritz Albrecht is Associate Professor of Environmental-Political Humangeography at the University of Eastern Finland. His research focuses on socio-spatial processes at the intersection between transnational sustainable policies and their economic and societal spheres of implementation. His current research particularly focuses on the assembling of novel blue (bio)economies such as seaweed or recirculating aquaculture systems, their spatial imaginaries, narratives and forces of (re/de)territorialization.

Gabriella Palermo is a researcher in Geography (RTT) at the department Culture e Società of the University of Palermo, Italy. Her work focuses on critical ocean geographies and environmental/blue humanities, mainly linked to Mediterranean Studies. In 2026, she founded with Giulia de Spuches EHHP (Environmental Humanities Hub Palermo) for her department, for which she is scientific coordinator.