Maritime Sociology in the Making

Abstract

"Maritime spaces are socially constructed by humans and refer to seas and islands, coasts, port cities and villages, as well as ships and other human-made marine structures. Social interaction with marine environments and living beings, e.g. in a symbolic, cultural or economic manner, has led to the emergence of spatial structures which affect the knowledge, beliefs, meanings and obstinately patterns. Those structures shape mutual expectations of human beings and form the perception, imagination, or memory of inhabitants of maritime spaces. They enable or restrict human action, construct people's everyday life, their norms and values, and are changeable"-- Thinking maritime spaces sociologically : an introduction / Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś, Frank Sowa, and Marie C. Grasmeier -- Maritime sociology in the making / Arkadiusz Kołodziej and Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś -- Toward an ocean of hybridisation : East Asian connections / Seung Kuk Kim -- Port cities as urban assemblages. Bringing actor-network theory to maritime sociology / Robert Bartłomiejski and Maciej Kowalewski -- Maritime identities in western Baltic port cities / Jan Asmussen -- Local culture and postindustrial transformation of the port-city / Günter Warsewa -- When the sea comes to the city. The case of Polish Port Elblag / Włodzimierz Karol Pessel -- On maritime culture : interpretations, scope of impact, and controversies / Arkadiusz Kołodziej -- Portuguese sea museums and the communication of maritime heritage in the 21st century / Rita Grácio, Nuno Cintra Torress, Isabel Duarte, Célia Quico, Rute Muchacho, and Eduardo Sarmento Ferreira -- The specificity of maritime culture. Monuments and anti-monuments of urban spaces a testimony to the maritime character of the city of Szczecin / Karolina Izdebska and Urszula Kozłowska -- The linear village? Chasing "community" amongst boat dwellers on the waterways of south east England / Benjamin Bowles -- The ship as a postcolonial space / Marie C. Grasmeier -- Farming rice at the margins in West Africa / Joana Sousa -- The staged world of the cruise ship / Ulrike Kronfeld-Goharani -- Boat migrants : hyper-visible and (yet) invisible. On security, racism and maritime migration to Canada / Giacomo Orisini and Harini Sivalingam.