Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211066012
Caroline Emily Rae
In this article, I argue for the notion of what I term ‘uncanny water’ as a conceptual tool for reading contemporary oceanic fictions. The uncanny’s affective capacity to destabilise epistemological and ontological certainties makes it a particularly potent literary tool for challenging the nature/culture binary. I argue that fictions which actively defamiliarise the ocean can be used to redress the anthropocentric privilege found in hitherto narratives of the oceanic that were predicated upon mastery and control, and that uncanny moments of displacement and uncertainty can illuminate human/oceanic interconnections and foster a sense of responsibility and compassion towards the oceans. I identify resonances between the uncanny’s continuing referentiality and the notion that feminist transcorporeality interrelates the subject into networks of materiality which extend across time and space in unknowable ways. Both transcorporeality and the uncanny work against the conceit of the individual through the dissolution of boundaries, and, crucially, both require a suspension of assumptions of the self as whole, discrete and impermeable. To demonstrate this, I read the uncanny waters of contemporary fictions from the Northern Atlantic Littoral (Atlantic Canada and the westernmost parts of the UK). The littoral position of these spaces makes them ideally placed to negotiate the borders between habitable and unhabitable spaces, and the limitations of knowledge that run alongside this. I assert that iterations of uncanny water offer a transoceanic dialogue which shifts constructions of subjectivity away from national and terrestrial boundaries to one more akin to the fluid and relational dialectics of transcorporeality.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211064886
C. Stifjell
In the context of climate change and sea-level rise, the blue humanities have high stakes in telling captivating and persuasive stories that illustrate the intimate connections between human bodies and ‘bodies of water’ (Neimanis, 2017, p. 1). Part of this work lies in a shifting of onto-epistemological boundaries to see bodies as porously and permeably embedded within environments, leaking into each other in a way that is posthuman and trans-corporeal (Alaimo, 2014, p. 190). Another part lies in coming to terms with the oceans’ abiding histories of empire and slavery, toxicity and global capitalism. However, even as our history is inundated with it and our existence depends on it, the ocean is, as Stefan Helmreich (2009, p. ix) so concisely puts it, ‘strange’. Unlike earth, it is an alien realm that resists direct experience and knowledge and prohibits humans from visiting on our own terms. Surfers, swimmers, sailors and divers have their own embodied ways of knowing the sea, but for most humans the ocean is a highly mediated environment that requires translation through cinema, documentary, photography, literature or poetry in order to become accessible for more than surface-level thought, emotion and concern (Alaimo, 2014, p. 191). The shape of these stories matters for imagining multispecies futures, and many have moulded themselves around ideas of otherness, danger, transcendence and use—giving us the ocean as alien, as stranger, as sublime nature and as resource and conduit for transnational capital and empire.
在气候变化和海平面上升的背景下，蓝色人文学科在讲述引人入胜和有说服力的故事方面具有很高的利害关系，这些故事说明了人体与“水体”之间的密切联系(Neimanis, 2017，第1页)。这项工作的一部分在于本体-认识论边界的转变，将身体视为渗透和渗透地嵌入环境中，以一种后人类和跨物质的方式相互渗透(Alaimo, 2014，第190页)。另一部分是要接受海洋的历史——帝国和奴役，毒性和全球资本主义。然而，即使我们的历史充斥着海洋，我们的生存也依赖于它，正如斯特凡·海姆里奇(2009,p. ix)简洁地指出的那样，海洋是“奇怪的”。与地球不同，它是一个陌生的领域，抵制直接的经验和知识，禁止人类以我们自己的方式访问。冲浪者、游泳者、水手和潜水员都有自己具体的认识海洋的方式，但对大多数人来说，海洋是一个高度中介的环境，需要通过电影、纪录片、摄影、文学或诗歌进行翻译，以便能够接触到比表面层次的思想、情感和关注(Alaimo, 2014, p. 191)。这些故事的形式对想象多物种的未来很重要，许多故事都围绕着异类、危险、超越和用途的概念塑造自己——让我们看到海洋是陌生的、陌生的、崇高的自然，是跨国资本和帝国的资源和渠道。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211069336
Katja Holtz
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211073294
Subhalakshmi Gooptu
In this article, I describe Andil Gosine’s artistic archives as ‘watery’ to chart a feminist genealogy of archival practice. I argue that routing interdisciplinary studies of Atlantic and Indian Oceans through the Caribbean provides a transoceanic method to analyse race and sexuality within Indo-Caribbean connections. To that end, I examine the representation of water and waterways in Gosine’s Our Holy Waters, and Mine (2014) to illustrate how relations with water provides a heuristic and representative practice for critiquing afterlives of colonialism and indentureship. I bring together Indo-Caribbean feminist epistemology, scholarship on feminist and queer archival practices and ocean studies to read Gosine’s experimental artistic practice as offering ways to rethink oceanic materiality in the context of historical and archival knowledge production.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211041089
H. Ghorashi
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the discourse of othering of non-Western migrants has been growing in many European societies. And since 2015, refugees have become a quite visible component in this discourse. Although, for decades, the dominant image of refugees has been constructed as people ‘at risk’, new competing images of refugee men ‘as risk’ have recently gained ground. For refugee women, however, the image of being victims and ‘at risk’ still prevails. This shows a strong underlying gendered logic of feminine vulnerability and masculine threat. In this article, I show how these images are situated within the dominant Dutch discourse of migration with taken-for-granted taxonomies of the self and the other. Specific in this normalised discourse for refugee women is that their agency is either ignored or their possible position as activists is not acknowledged to exist. Using examples from two studies in which my research team engaged with the method of narrative engaged research, I show the importance of this particular narrative method in unsettling the normalising power of othering. The theoretical argument of this article engages with ongoing discussions on power and agency. It argues that, when the power of exclusion works through repetition and is manifested in the daily normalisation of actions, agency needs to provide an alternative in the same fluid manner. Narratives in dialogue provide an illuminating angle for discussing this specific kind of agency, as I will show through some examples from research.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211040465
Mylène Gamache
This article reads with Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer and independent scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Nêhiyaw legal scholar and novelist Tracey Lindberg. The practice of reading with involves heeding textual instructions and prioritising narrative terms of engagement. Indigenous bodies layered with resurgent potential in Lindberg’s and Simpson’s fictions refuse to re-centre the legacy of white settler coloniality. Attending to the process of reading with, as a relational undertaking, involves re-apprising cross-generational legacies and re-membering collective responsibilities.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211041898
Oumou Longley
This article aims to explore how the archival life of Olive Morris might radically rebuff the devaluation of Black womanhood and identity in Britain. Harnessing a Black feminist framework, I approach Lambeth Archives, where the Olive Morris Collection is found as a therapeutic space. Through an understanding of Olive as complex, I disrupt hegemonic expectations of Black women and propose that within the space of this research, Black womanhood be allowed the freedom of self-definition. In a conglomeration of the documents and voices of the community that remembers Olive, marginalised epistemologies are legitimised. Their sometimes-conflicting accounts generate an unbounded image of Olive as a figure of Black British women’s history that harbours meaning as it is mobilised in social consciousness. Incorporating my own auto-ethnographic reflections, I explore the internal and external impact of Olive and my existence in this archival space.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211041263
Sujatha Fernandes
In recent decades, there have been major changes in the organisation of social reproduction. As middle-class women have entered the workforce in large numbers, and state provision of childcare and other welfare services has been scaled back under neo-liberalism, there has been an unprecedented outsourcing of household labour to the market. The resulting commodification of social reproduction has not liberated women from the demands of housework but has largely shifted this work away from women in the Global North towards migrant women workers from poor and heavily indebted countries of the Global South. At the same time, there has also been a huge increase in internal migration within Global South countries, as newly wealthy middle classes in the cities are being serviced by poor rural women. Commodified domestic labour relies on the existence of gendered and racialised migrant workers. This article examines the domestic workers’ strike as an effective and urgent mode of political action given the massive and growing concentration of migrant women in domestic work. This requires a reassessment of earlier feminist strategies based on a nuclear family model and current advocacy strategies that, influenced by foundations, have rejected the strike tactic in favour of limited legal strategies. This article draws on my empirical research on domestic workers’ movements in the USA and India in order to highlight emerging strategies of labour movements.
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