Maritime Poetics: From Coast to Hinterland

by Gabriel N. Gee (Editor), Caroline Wiedmer (Editor)

Overview

In the past fifty years, port cities around the world have experienced considerable changes to their morphologies and their identities. The increasing intensification of global networks and logistics, and the resulting pressure on human societies and earthly environments have been characteristic of the rise of a »planetary age«. This volume engages with contemporary artistic practices and critical poetics that trace an alternate construction of the imaginaries and aspirations of our present societies at the crossroads of sea and land - taking into account complex pasts and interconnected histories, transnational flux, as well as material and immaterial borders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783732850235
Publisher:	transcript Verlag
Publication date:	04/30/2021
Series:	Edition Kulturwissenschaft , #219
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Gabriel N. Gee holds a PhD in contemporary art history from the Université Paris X Nanterre. He teaches contemporary art history and theory at Franklin University. His current research interests include twentieth century British and Irish art, the changing representations and imaginaries of port cities, as well as interconnected global histories. He is co-founder of the TETI group, for Textures and Experiences of Trans-Industriality (www.tetigroup.org.) Caroline Wiedmer holds a PhD in comparative literature from Princeton University. She teaches comparative literature, film studies, and cultural studies at Franklin University. Her research interests include memory studies, refugee studies, documentary film, environmental humanities, law and culture, spatiality, and the workings of narrative in multiple domains of cultural, legal, and intellectual life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Foreword 9
Introduction: maritime introspections 11
Altona: Between land and sea 35
The future of work: scaffolds and agencies 47
Genoa: the story of a port city and its hinterland 55
European seaport narratives: mirroring history in contemporary media 63
Market stall: maritime commerce in the collections of European maritime museums 77
From lighthouses to barcodes 97
The European tour 107
Bottleneck pressure: Port Said 115
Tarnished gold: border regimes from the Mediterranean to Switzerland 123
Liquid territory 143
They cleaned the beach before we arrived 149
Between the city and the deep sea: on the plastic nature of the Helsinki shoreline 157
No trophy 165
Haul away: Liverpool's irregular currents 173
North Canada - English Electric, 2010 191
A short journey (from Derry to Inishowen) 197
A letter to Henrietta 203
Acoustic ocean: annotated video script 209