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Book of Waves

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvStefan Helmreich

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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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Utgivningsdatum2023-08-04
Mått152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt844 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Antal sidor432
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478019947

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Foreword / Daniel R. Reichman and Robert J. Foster ixPreliminary. Forward and Back xiiiPreface. Wave Clutter xvIntroduction. Significant Waves 11. From the Waterwolf to the Sand Motor: Domesticating Waves in the Netherlands 31Set OneFirst Wave: The Genders of Waves 71Second Wave: Venice Hologram 79Third Wave: Wave Navigation, Sea of Islands 832. Flipping the Ship: Oriented Knowledge, Media, and Waves in the Field, Scripps Institution of Oceanography 91Set TwoFirst Wave: Being the Wave 141Second Wave: Radio Ocean 148Third Wave: Gravitational Waves, Sounded 1543. Waves to Order and Disorder: Making and Breaking Scale Models inside and outside the Lab, from Oregon to Japan 159Set ThreeFirst Wave: Massive Movie Waves 192Second Wave: Hokusai Now 203Third Wave: Blood, Waves 2084. World Wide Waves, In Silico: Computer Memory, Ocean Memory, and Version Control in the Global Data Stack 211Set FourFirst Wave: Middle Passages 242Second Wave: Wave Power 250Third Wave: Wave Theory ~ Social Theory 2575. Wave Theory, Southern Theory: Disorienting Planetary Oceanic Futures, Indian Ocean 269Postface. The Ends of Waves 301Acknowledgments 305Notes 311References 339Index 389

"An interesting overview of how natural ocean waves permeate society in many, often unrecognized ways from the standpoint of scientists who study them. This book encompasses historical and scientific perspectives on, sociological and anthropological insights into, and engineering and military challenges of humans’ connections with waves. The ethnographic approach blends scientific knowledge with insights from scientists studying waves. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." - N. W. Hinman (Choice) "A Book of Waves promises to be of interest to a diverse set of scholars. Most immediately, the book will be useful for scholars teaching or researching topics in the history and anthropology of physical sciences, the history of science and its relationship to American and other empire, colonialism and postcolonialism, and their reckoning with histories of militarism in the Pacific and elsewhere. As it plays with the form of a monograph, the book will be interesting for those hoping to similarly experiment with the form of nonfiction narrative. . . . Thinking and building a livable world that reconciles history and science’s imbrication in it, with hopes for more just futures, is hard work that tacitly demands much from the already overburdened, but A Book of Waves is an exemplary case of how scholarship can help us to get to where we’re going." - Jonathan Galka (H-Environment)