Book ID: CBB270688747

A Book of Waves (2023)

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Helmreich, Stefan (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 432
Language: English

In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materiality through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language these avatars of nature at once periodic and irreversible, wild and pacific, ephemeral and eternal. For researchers and their publics, the meanings of waves also reflect visions of the ocean as an environmental infrastructure fundamental to trade, travel, warfare, humanitarian rescue, recreation, and managing sea level rise. Interleaving ethnographic chapters with reflections on waves in mythology, surf culture, feminist theory, film, Indigenous Pacific activisms, Black Atlantic history, cosmology, and more, Helmreich demonstrates how waves mark out the wakes and breaks of social histories and futures.

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Authors & Contributors
Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von
Adler, Antony
Bankoff, Greg
Camprubí, Lino
Dick, Malcolm
Galloway, James A.
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Environment and History
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Journal of the History of Biology
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Publishers
CSIRO Publishing
Duke University Press
Harvard University Press
Liverpool University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
University of Minnesota Press
Concepts
Oceans and seas
Oceanography
Hydrography
Science and society
Coastal zone and estuarine studies
Littoral zone, nearshore
People
Humboldt, Alexander von
Time Periods
21st century
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Australia
Europe
Germany
United States
Pacific Ocean
Institutions
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
United States Navy
United States. Office of Naval Research
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