Overview
- Engages with the marine world through underwater ethnography to provide a perspective on water from below the surface
- Introduces Aquabiopolitics to understand how humans govern life in water in order to enrich human life on land
- Addresses a current topic, that of environmental destruction, albeit in a way that inspire action
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Keywords
- Environmental Anthropology
- Anthropology of Water
- Political Ecology
- Sensorial Methods
- Fieldwork Activism
About this book
This book introduces the concept of Aquabiopolitics to understand how humans govern life in water to enrich human life on land. The study focuses on the Baltic Sea and Lake Mälaren, using Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, as the connection point. The author explores how human practices over time have had devastating effects on marine life and continue to have so today. The book engages with the marine world through underwater ethnography, providing a perspective on water from below the surface. It joins marine scientists and trash scuba divers who are jointly invested in tracking human maltreatment of water and finding solutions for treating water differently. One of the key parts is to analyze how, and if, this relationship can be created: via social media, images, installations, or other means.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rasmus Rodineliussen, Ph.D., Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, has published in a number of peer-reviewed journals such as Anthropology Now, Visual Studies, Anthrovision, Irish Journal of Anthropology, Kritisk etnografi, and has two entries in SAGE Research Methods and Doing Research Online. Rasmus is also co-editor for the award-winning journal the Anthropology Book Forum.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Underwater Worlds
Book Subtitle: An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life
Authors: Rasmus Rodineliussen
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-63369-0Due: 18 September 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-63372-0Due: 18 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-63370-6Due: 18 September 2024
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 60 illustrations in colour