A book of waves / Stefan Helmreich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helmreich, Stefan, 1966- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Lewis Henry Morgan lectures

The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Ocean and civilization.

Ocean waves--Climatic factors.

Ocean waves.

Sea level--Social aspects.

Sea level.

Ocean--Philosophy.

Ocean.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 411 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From the waterwolf to the sand motor : domesticating waves in the Netherlands

Flipping the ship : oriented knowledge, media, and waves in the field, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Waves to order and disorder : making and breaking scale models inside and outside the lab, from Oregon to Japan

World wide waves, in silico : computer memory, ocean memory, and version control in the global data stack

Wave theory, southern theory : disorienting planetary oceanic futures, Indian Ocean.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Helmreich, Stefan, 1966- Book of waves.

ISBN:

9781478024538

1478024534

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.