Maritime Spaces and Society

Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś (1973), professor at the University of Szczecin, Poland. She has published articles on maritime professions (e.g. in European Societies) and introduced the Research Stream in Maritime Sociology to the European Sociological Association conferences.Frank Sowa, PhD (1974), professor at the Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany. He has worked on maritime issues, e.g. identity politics of the Greenlandic Inuit and whaling culture in Japan. He organised several research streams and sessions in Maritime Sociology.Marie C. Grasmeier (1979) studied nautical science, social anthropology and gender studies in Bremen, Germany. She wrote her PhD-thesis on the occupational culture and occupational identities of seafarers in the global merchant fleet. She currently works in the civilian maritime search-and-rescue fleet as a nautical expert and teaches ethnographic methods at the University of Bremen.

• List of Tables and FiguresNotes on ContributorsThinking Maritime Spaces Sociologically: An IntroductionAgnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś, Frank Sowa, and Marie C. GrasmeierPart One: Conceptualising Maritime Sociologies1. Maritime Sociology in the MakingArkadiusz Kołodziej and Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś2. Toward an Ocean of Hybridisation: East Asian ConnectionsSeung Kuk KimPart Two: Port Cities3. Port Cities as Urban Assemblages. Bringing Actor-Network Theory to Maritime SociologyRobert Bartłomiejski and Maciej Kowalewski4. Maritime Identities in Western Baltic Port CitiesJan Asmussen5. Local Culture and the Postindustrial Transformation of the Port-CityGünter Warsewa6. When The Sea Comes to the City. The Case of Polish Port ElblągWłodzimierz Karol PesselPart Three: Sea and Culture7. On Maritime Culture: Interpretations, Scope of Impact, and ControversiesArkadiusz Kołodziej8. Portuguese Sea Museums and the Communication of Maritime Heritage in the 21st CenturyRita Grácio, Nuno Cintra Torres, Isabel Duarte, Célia Quico, Rute Muchacho, and Eduardo Sarmento Ferreira9. The Specificity of Maritime Culture. Monuments and Anti-monuments of Urban Spaces a Testimony to the Maritime Character of the City of SzczecinKarolina Izdebska and Urszula KozłowskaPart Four: Water as Home and Road10. The Linear Village? Chasing “Community” amongst Boat Dwellers on the Waterways of South East EnglandBenjamin Bowles11. The Ship as a Postcolonial SpaceMarie C. GrasmeierPart Five: Ecology, Economy and Society12. Farming Rice at the Margins in West AfricaJoana Sousa13. The Staged World of the Cruise ShipUlrike Kronfeld‐Goharani14. Boat Migrants: Hyper-visible and (yet) Invisible. On Security, Racism, and Maritime Migration to CanadaGiacomo Orsini and Harini SivalingamIndex