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Underwater Worlds: An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life (2024): By Rasmus Rodineliussen
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RODINELIUSSEN, RASMUS. 2024, Underwater Worlds: An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 248 pp., ISBN 978-3-031-63372-
Caring for Water : Underwater Waste, Trash Diving, and Publicity in Stockholm
No full texthttps://doi.org/10.33063/diva-463875</p
The Anthropology Book Forum : Perspectives and Reflections on the Book Review in Transition
No full textThe Anthropology Book Forum (https://anthrobookforum.americananthro.org) was founded by the American Anthropological Association as an experimental digital platform aimed at accelerating the scholarly book review process and expanding conversations around newly published work. Based on the idea that book reviews are not just summaries of academic texts, but engagements with scholarship, ideas and authors, the Forum seeks to facilitate connections and exchange between authors and readers within and outside of anthropology. In 2022, the Forum was awarded the GAD New Directions Award (group category) for its sustained efforts towards transitioning to new modes of book reviews as well as to more diverse and accessible formats. In recent years, the Forum has sought to encourage and host new configurations of the book review, including visual, audio, and video formats that can reach a broader public both within and outside of academia. This roundtable seeks to host a conversation around the book review in transition, its role in contemporary scholarly exchange, and how it is evolving in the current era. Toward this end, this roundtable brings together authors who engage with reviews of their recently published work to reflect on the value of the book review, the role reviews play in reaching larger audiences, and what an author can learn about their work by engaging with reviews. It similarly highlights the ways in which different modes of review can provide a medium for early career scholars and graduate students to engage with disciplinary conversations, while also thinking about the value of reviews for larger audiences beyond anthropology.</p
Underwater Worlds : An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life
No full textThis book investigates relations between humans, waste, pollution, and marine life. It introduces the concept of Aquabiopolitics as a means to understand how humans govern life in water in order 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. Throughout the book, 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 to provide a perspective on water from below the surface. In this endeavor, it tracks marine scientists and trash scuba divers who are jointly invested in tracking human maltreatment of water and finding solutions for treating water differently in the future. It follows the scientists on expeditions at sea and to their laboratories in order to learn about their methods and relations to underwater worlds. Together with the trash scuba divers, we will dive into the dark murky waters around Stockholm—experiencing what it is like to move below water, among sharp and toxic waste, without any visibility. The work of creating a knowing and caring relationship between humans and water is of key importance to both scientists and divers. Therefore, one of the main parts of this book is to analyze how, and if, this relationship can be created: via social media, images, installations, or other means.</p
Book Review - Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe, Ruben Andersson
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Full text linkJeremy J. Schmidt. 2019. Water. Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity. New York University Press: New York, 320 pp, ISBN: 978147984642
Pollution is Colonialism : M. Liboiron, 2021,<em> </em>Durham and London: Duke University Press
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Visual Methods to Study the Underwater World
Full text linkIn this article I engage in a discussion regarding how and why to conduct underwater ethnography when studying the social group of scuba divers. The material presented was collected during fieldwork in Brazil 2016/2017, as well as from the researchers own decade long experience of being a recreational diver. The discussion touches on the methodological approach of using a camera to document and engage with a sensorial experience. Furthermore, aspects of power, representation, and framing of images are brought up, noting how the increasing circulation of visual materials has made interlocutors more aware of the way they are represented visually. I also elaborate on the importance of doing backups of your material. Lastly, the aim of this article is to call for further exploration of the scuba diving community and their underwater practices.En este artículo planteo una discusión acerca de cómo y por qué realizar una etnografía submarina al estudiar el grupo social de los buceadores. El material presentado se recopiló durante un trabajo de campo realizado en Brasil entre 2016 y 2017, así como a partir de la experiencia del investigador como buceador recreativo durante una década. La discusión aborda el enfoque metodológico del uso de una cámara para documentar y participar en una experiencia sensorial. Además, se ponen encima de la mesa aspectos relativos al poder, a la representación y al encuadre de las imágenes, observando cómo el aumento de la circulación de los materiales visuales ha hecho que los interlocutores sean más conscientes de la forma en que son representados visualmente. También me refiero a la importancia de hacer copias de seguridad del material. Por último, el objetivo de este artículo es reivindicar una mayor exploración de la comunidad de buceo y de sus prácticas submarinas
Organising the Syrian revolution - student activism through Facebook
No full textIn this article I engage with the use of Facebook by Syrian student activists to mobilise demonstrations and other acts of resistance against the regime of Al-Assad. The material presented was collected during fieldwork among Syrian refugees in Sweden and activists still in Aleppo, Syria, between 2015 and 2016. Methodologically this is an anthropological qualitative study, employing the method of participant-observation, including online interviews with interlocutors in Syria as a compliment to observations and interviews conducted in Sweden. The findings suggest that although Facebook was not a reason behind the revolution it was an important infrastructure for mobilisation during the revolution. Moreover, I show how Facebook not only allowed activists to mobilise, but also to share images of atrocities in Syria with a global public as well as publish paintings and caricatures of the regime as means to situate themselves within the Syrian revolutionary context. My material illustrates the importance of visuals both as 'visual proofs' and as a media of communication. The article follows the developments of the revolution to show how the use of visuals and social media developed as events turned increasingly violent. With the increasing violence I also probe into how the west viewed what was happening in Syria through images, and conclude on some possible reasons behind the lack of action on behalf of the western audience.</p
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