Blueish Entanglements and Transformations

Moritz Albrecht is Associate Professor of Environmental-Political Human Geography at the University of Eastern Finland. His research focuses on socio-spatial processes at the intersection between transnational sustainable policies and their economic and societal spheres of implementation. His current research particularly focuses on the assembling of novel blue (bio)economies such as seaweed or recirculating aquaculture systems, their spatial imaginaries, narratives, and forces of (re/de)territorialization.Gabriella Palermo is Researcher in Geography at the Department Culture e Società of the University of Palermo, Italy. Her work focuses on critical ocean geographies and environmental/blue humanities, with a particular emphasis on Mediterranean Studies. In 2026, together with Giulia de Spuches, she founded the EHHP (Environmental Humanities Hub Palermo) within her department, where she serves as scientific coordinator.

• 1. Blueish Geographies, Entanglements and Transformations 2. Oceans Adrift: On the Seychelles' Blue Economy Agenda and the Unbounding of the Boundary Object 3. Just Blue Economy? Rural Development, Fisheries and Sustainability in the Case of Dunmore East, Waterford Ireland 4. Assembling an Alternative Seaweed Moment at the Margins of Blue Economy Trajectories: Small-Scale, Wild Harvest Community Transformations in Yogyakarta Region, Indonesia 5. The Blue Crab as a Lively Archive, or Following the Turbulence of Portunus Segnis Across the Kerkennah Islands in the Post-Suez Era 6. Listening-With Intersecting Oceanic Temporalities – Holding, Dis/Inviting, Repairing 7. Blueish Plannings: Clashing Fluidities, Volumes and Narratives in Palermo's Waterfront 8. Transformative Temporalities: Poetic Planning With Mandø 9. Cyclone Gabrielle's Transformative Effects in Aotearoa New Zealand 10. Timescapes, Territorialisation of the Sea, and (De)Growth in Turbulent Crises: Perspectives From an Island