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The Mistral
An in-depth look at the hidden power of the mistral wind and its effect on modern French history. Every year, the chilly mistral wind blows through the Rhône valley of southern France, across the Camargue wetlands, and into the Mediterranean Sea. Most forceful when winter turns to spring, the wind knocks over trees, sweeps trains off their tracks, and destroys crops. Yet the mistral turns the sky clear and blue, as it often appears in depictions of Provence. The legendary wind is central to the area’s regional identity and has inspired artists and writers near and far for centuries. This force of nature is the focus of Catherine Dunlop’s The Mistral, a wonderfully written examination of the power of the mistral wind, and in particular, the ways it challenged central tenets of nineteenth-century European society: order, mastery, and predictability. As Dunlop shows, while the modernizing state sought liberation from environmental realities through scientific advances, land modification, and other technological solutions, the wind blew on, literally crushing attempts at control, and becoming increasingly integral to regional feelings of place and community.
Regional Conference on building a future for sustainable small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
According to the report, the conference focused on the main challenges for the sustainable development of small-scale fisheries, including promoting political commitment and tailored strategies, raising awareness, and sharing knowledge.
The Aesthetics of the Undersea
Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses – and the opportunities it affords – for sensation, perception, inquiry, and fantasy. The Aesthetics of the Undersea draws case studies in such potencies from the subaqueous imaginings of Western culture, and from the undersea realities that have inspired them. The chapters explore aesthetic engagements with underwater worlds, and sustain a concern with submarine "sense," in several meanings of that word: when submerged, faculties and fantasies transform, confronting human subjects with their limitations while enlarging the apparent scope of possibility and invention. Terrestrially-established categories and con...
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Coral Empire
From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life they sustained, the work of early twentieth-century explorers and photographers fed the public's fascination with reefs. In the 1920s John Ernest Williamson in the Bahamas and Frank Hurley in Australia produced mass-circulated and often highly staged photographs and films that cast corals as industrious, colonizing creatures, and the undersea as a virgin, unexplored, and fantastical territory. In Coral Empire Ann Elias traces the visual and social history of Williamson and Hurley and how their modern media spectacles yoked the tropics and coral reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature. Using the labor and knowledge of indigenous peoples while exoticizing and racializing them as inferior Others, Williamson and Hurley sustained colonial fantasies about people of color and the environment as endless resources to be plundered. As Elias demonstrates, their reckless treatment of the sea prefigured attitudes that caused the environmental crises that the oceans and reefs now face.
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Le chant des sirènes
Les océans occupent une place déterminante dans le discours social et il devient urgent d’exercer, en marge de l’action écologique, un travail critique sur le langage grâce auquel se pense et se raconte l’exploration sous-marine. Ce livre aborde les enjeux environnementaux, économiques et politiques soulevés par la plus grande accessibilité au milieu subaquatique que le perfectionnement du scaphandre autonome et l’invention du bathyscaphe ont permis depuis les années 1950. L’analyse littéraire permet d’aborder des textes scientifiques tout en faisant ressortir les motivations et les tensions qui ont animé leurs auteurs, ceux-là mêmes qui ont contribué à instaurer notre rapport actuel aux océans. Un rapport qui doit d’ailleurs évoluer, comme nous le rappelle l’Organisation des Nations unies qui a lancé en 2021 la Décennie pour les sciences océaniques dans une perspective de développement durable. Cet ouvrage magnifiquement écrit, très évocateur, s’adresse à tous ceux et celles que la littérature, la vulgarisation scientifique, l’océanographie, l’histoire maritime ou la biologie marine intéressent.
