Assembling ocean life: more-than-human entanglements in the Blue economy

Bear, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7130-515X 2017. Assembling ocean life: more-than-human entanglements in the Blue economy. Dialogues in Human Geography 7 (1) , pp. 27-31. 10.1177/2043820617691635

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Abstract

While welcoming the intervention of Winders and Le Heron as opening up a space for critical – and practical – engagement with so-called ‘Blue Economy’ thinking, their employment of assemblage approaches could be extended. Doing so might produce a different conceptualisation of the blue economy, while concurrently establishing new challenges for blue economic practices. In this commentary, I focus on three key areas: 1) the ontological separation of land and sea and the conceptualisation of ‘marine space’; 2) the ‘liveliness’ of oceans; and 3) practical possibilities for Blue Economy policies to draw on and engage with ‘wet ontologies’. I argue that future geographical research on the Blue Economy would benefit from moving away from categorisations of the ‘ecological’ or ‘bio’ and towards a fuller engagement with the diversity of actants and forces that contribute to the emergence of new practices, policies and (de)territorialisations.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GC Oceanography
Uncontrolled Keywords:	More-than-human, assemblage theory, blue economy, geographies of the sea, dynamic ocean management
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	2043-8206
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 February 2017
Date of Acceptance:	1 August 2016
Last Modified:	25 Nov 2024 13:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/98163

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