The ocean exceeded: Fish, flows and forces
The ongoing conceptualisation of oceans and the hydrosphere by Peters and Steinberg is to be welcomed. They continue to challenge geography’s historical tendency to focus on and from terrestrial spaces, exploring how oceans exceed their material, discursive and imagined boundaries along with their l...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/2043820619878567 2023-05-15T15:32:16+02:00 The ocean exceeded: Fish, flows and forces Bear, Christopher 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820619878567 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2043820619878567 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/2043820619878567 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Dialogues in Human Geography volume 9, issue 3, page 329-332 ISSN 2043-8206 2043-8214 Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2019 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619878567 2022-09-28T19:07:59Z The ongoing conceptualisation of oceans and the hydrosphere by Peters and Steinberg is to be welcomed. They continue to challenge geography’s historical tendency to focus on and from terrestrial spaces, exploring how oceans exceed their material, discursive and imagined boundaries along with their liquid form. This short commentary responds specifically to their assertion that ‘The ocean is fish’. Using the example of Atlantic salmon, it questions the directionality at the heart of Peters and Steinberg’s paper. It focuses particularly on the complex spatialities of salmonid life, and the ability of salmon to blur aquatic boundaries. The commentary argues that if oceans exceed, they are also exceeded, whether through the extra-planetary forces that guide salmonid migration and affect tides, or the inward flows of water from rivers. It ends by questioning the space given to non-human life in the more-than-wet ontology, asking how such actants might be implicated in oceanic excess, particularly when the ocean’s intrinsic voluminous excess renders them beyond human awareness or understanding. Article in Journal/Newspaper Atlantic salmon SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Dialogues in Human Geography 9 3 329 332 |
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The ongoing conceptualisation of oceans and the hydrosphere by Peters and Steinberg is to be welcomed. They continue to challenge geography’s historical tendency to focus on and from terrestrial spaces, exploring how oceans exceed their material, discursive and imagined boundaries along with their liquid form. This short commentary responds specifically to their assertion that ‘The ocean is fish’. Using the example of Atlantic salmon, it questions the directionality at the heart of Peters and Steinberg’s paper. It focuses particularly on the complex spatialities of salmonid life, and the ability of salmon to blur aquatic boundaries. The commentary argues that if oceans exceed, they are also exceeded, whether through the extra-planetary forces that guide salmonid migration and affect tides, or the inward flows of water from rivers. It ends by questioning the space given to non-human life in the more-than-wet ontology, asking how such actants might be implicated in oceanic excess, particularly when the ocean’s intrinsic voluminous excess renders them beyond human awareness or understanding. |
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