Volume 27, Numbers 1-2
This issue introduces a growing body of work known as the “blue humanities.” One of the aims of trans-disciplinary work in this area is to raise awareness and increase activism regarding the catastrophic planetary effects of neglecting the challenges our oceans are facing. From plastic pollution and over-fishing to acidification and skepticism regarding climate change, humanities scholars and activists can complement the work of environmentalists and marine scientists in an effort to “save” the ocean. Blue humanities historicizes the ocean and makes it an important part of contemporary consciousness in a way that will hopefully encourage more research on and political support for understanding and reversing the multi-dimensional negative effects of neglecting to care for over two-thirds of our planet.
Contents
IAN BUCHANAN AND CELINA JEFFERY
Towards a Blue Humanity
SOPHIA M. A. NICOLOV
Open Endings: The Eastern North Pacific Gray Whale Unusual Mortality Event, 1999-2000
CELINA JEFFERY
Artistic Immersion: Towards an Oceanic Connectedness
BOGNA M. KONIOR
Climate Change Goes Live, or Capturing Life? For a Blue Media Studies
DANIEL WUEBBEN AND JUAN JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ-TRUEBA
Surfing Between Blue Humanities and Blue Economies in Cantabria, Spain
IAN BUCHANAN
Must We Eat Fish?
DONNA HONARPISHEH
The Sea as Archive: Impressions of Qui Se Souvient De La Mer
JAN JAGODZINSKI
Into the Dark Blue: A Medi(t)ation on the Oceans—Its Pain, Its Wonder, Its Wild, and Its Hope