Postcolonial Oceans
Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities
Published on 9. November 2023
Book
Hardback
VII, 449 pages
978-3-96822-159-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book contributes to the study of oceans, seas, coastal waters, and rivers within blue humanities by broadening, circulating, and interweaving knowledge about such waters, ocean epistemologies, and sea narratives from pluriversal epistemological, geographical, cultural, and disciplinary perspectives. The contributors from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, North America and the Pacific explore the interconnections between oceans, coastal areas, rivers, humans, animals, plants, organisms, and landscapes in the fields of cultural history and cultural studies, critical race and postcolonial studies, marine and environmental studies, linguistics, literature, film and media studies.
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Editor
Sukla Chatterjee is lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in Anglophone postcolonial literatures and cultures. Her research interests include women and travel narratives in colonial India, blue humanities, dystopian literary studies, famine studies and literatures of hunger.
Joanna Chojnicka is Assistant Professor in Linguistics and English as a Second Language at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Previously, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Cardiff University in Wales, as well as a postdoctoral fellow in Poznan, Bremen and Konstanz (Germany). Her research interests include gender, sexuality and discourse studies, multilingualism, translation and minority languages, as well as postcolonial, queer and eco approaches to linguistics.
Anna-Katharina Hornidge is director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and professor for Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn. In her research, she works on knowledges and innovation development as well as questions of natural resources governance in agriculture and fisheries in Asia and Africa. Anna Hornidge serves as expert advisor at national, EU and UN level: as member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change of the German Government (WBGU), co-chair (with Gesine Schwan) of SDSN Germany, and as part of the executive council of the German UNESCO Commission.
Kerstin Knopf is professor for North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen and director of the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS) and the Bremen Institute for Canada and Quebec Studies (BICQS). She is currently president of the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS, 2021-23). Her main research interests are Indigenous film and literature, postcolonial studies focusing on North America and the Pacific region, blue humanities, postcolonial knowledge systems, and American and Canadian romantic literature.