Book ID: CBB043992582

Oceaning: Governing Marine Life with Drones (2024)

unapi

Adam Fish (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2024
Physical Details: 248
Language: English

Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more, drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process, new dependencies between nature, technology, and humans emerge, and a paradox becomes apparent: Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? In Oceaning, Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks, and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs. Drone conservation is not the end of nature. Instead, drone conservation results in an ocean whose flourishing both depends upon and escapes the control of technologies. Faulty technology, oceanic and atmospheric turbulence, political corruption, and the inadequacies of basic science serve to foil governance over nature. Fish contends that what emerges is an ocean/culture—a flourishing ocean that is distinct from but exists alongside humanity.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB043992582/

Similar Citations

Article Hannah Dickinson; Elizabeth Johnson; (2022)
Digesting Planetary Harms: Ocean Life, Biomaterial Innovation, and Uncanny Ingestions of the Anthropocene (/isis/citation/CBB917517949/)

Book Samantha Muka; (2023)
Oceans under glass : tank craft and the sciences of the sea (/isis/citation/CBB279994276/)

Article Taylor, Joseph E., III; (2013)
Knowing the Black Box: Methodological Challenges in Marine Environmental History (/isis/citation/CBB001211795/)

Book Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez; Bo Poulsen; (2016)
Perspectives on Oceans Past (/isis/citation/CBB407635627/)

Book Brayton, Daniel; (2012)
Shakespeare's Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration (/isis/citation/CBB001201603/)

Article Jones, Ryan Tucker; (2013)
Running into Whales: The History of the North Pacific from below the Waves (/isis/citation/CBB001212531/)

Article Serpil Oppermann; (2019)
Storied Seas and Living Metaphors in the Blue Humanities (/isis/citation/CBB978539759/)

Article Victoria Martin; Liam Smith; Alison Bowling; Les Christidis; David Lloyd; Gretta Pecl; (August 2016)
Citizens as Scientists: What Influences Public Contributions to Marine Research? (/isis/citation/CBB408786335/)

Article Elena Casetta; (2020)
Making Sense of Nature Conservation After the End of Nature (/isis/citation/CBB940720523/)

Book Owen T. Nevin; Ian Convery; Peter Davis; (2019)
The Bear: Culture, Nature, Heritage (/isis/citation/CBB329554815/)

Book Laura Alice Watt; David Lowenthal; (2016)
The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore (/isis/citation/CBB843463060/)

Book Antony Adler; (2019)
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea (/isis/citation/CBB539930107/)

Article Alessandro Antonello; (2022)
Antarctic Krill and the Temporalities of Oceanic Abundance, 1930s–1960s (/isis/citation/CBB132455694/)

Book Frances Steel; (2018)
New Zealand And the Sea: Historical Perspectives: 2018 (/isis/citation/CBB227126682/)

Book Christopher J. Fuller; (2017)
See It/Shoot It: The Secret History of the CIA’s Lethal Drone Program (/isis/citation/CBB712490854/)

Book Iván Chaar López; (2024)
The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion (/isis/citation/CBB407005585/)

Authors & Contributors
Adler, Antony
Antonello, Alessandro
Brayton, Daniel
Johnson, Elizabeth
Jones, Ryan Tucker
Lowenthal, David
Journals
Environment and History
American Historical Review
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Environmental History
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Boydell Press
Duke University Press
Harvard University Press
Springer
University of California Press
University of Virginia Press
Concepts
Oceans and seas
Marine ecology
Marine biology
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Wildlife conservation
Human-animal relationships
People
Shakespeare, William
Mackintosh, Neil Alison
Time Periods
21st century
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
16th century
18th century
Places
United States
Brazil
Great Britain
California (U.S.)
New Zealand
Poland
Institutions
United States. National Park Service
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment