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Thinking Through the Sea. Stranding and Other Metaphors, in Search of Cognitive Alternatives

Author(s): Małgorzata Owczarska
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: blue humanities; water; ocean; sea epistemologies; Polynesia; blue anthropology; hydro-politics; sea metaphors; ship as metaphor; Polynesian canoe; Pacific studies; climate crisis; water in anthropolo

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I would like to consider the comparison of stranding to landcentric cognitive processes that translate into the creation of an impossible world – devoid of water and its potentials, rhythms and cycles immersed in it. I will illustrate this with examples of fresh water and sea hydro-policies (including nuclear trials in the Pacific) and will explore cognitive and activist alternatives proposed by the Polynesian sailors and navigators. I will also use two ambiguous metaphors of a ship and a Polynesian voyaging canoe as an opening for different narrations of the planets’ future in the climate crisis.

  • Issue Year: 48/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 245-267
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish
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