Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space

<p>Invisible as the seas and oceans may be for so many of us life as we know it is almost always connected to and constituted by activities and occurrences that take place in on and under our oceans. <em>The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space</em> provides a first port of call for scholars engaging in the ‘oceanic turn’ in the social sciences offering a comprehensive summary of existing trends in making sense of our water worlds alongside new agenda-setting insights into the relationships between society and the ‘seas around us’. Accordingly this ambitious text not only attends to a growing interest in our oceans past and present; it is also situated in a broader spatial turn across the social sciences that seeks to account for how space and place are imbricated in socio-cultural and political life.</p><p>Through six clearly structured and wide-ranging sections <em>The</em> <i>Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space </i>examines and interrogates how the oceans are environmental historical social cultural political legal and economic <i>spaces </i>and also zones where national and international security comes into question. With a foreword and introduction authored by some of the leading scholars researching and writing about ocean spaces alongside 31 further carefully crafted chapters from established as well as early career academics this book provides both an accessible guide to the subject and a cutting-edge collection of critical ideas and questions shaping the social sciences today.</p><p>This handbook brings together the key debates defining the ‘field’ in one volume appealing to a wide cross-disciplinary social science and humanities audience. Moreover drawing on a range of international examples from a global collective of authors this book promises to be the benchmark publication for those interested in ocean spaces past and present. Indeed as the seas and oceans continue to capture world-wide attention and the social sciences continue their seaward ‘turn’ <em>The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space </em>will provide an invaluable resource that reveals how our world is a water world. </p>