Cross-currents and undertows: A response. Issue 3 (November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Steinberg, Philip; Peters, Kimberley
• Is Part Of: Dialogues in human geography. Volume 9:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 333
• Page End: 338
• Publication Date: 2019-11
• Subjects: excess -- extension -- materiality -- ocean -- wet ontology; Human geography -- Periodicals; Human ecology -- Periodicals; Environmental ethics -- Periodicals; 304.205
• DOI: 10.1177/2043820619879521
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2043-8206

Abstract

In our response, we address two themes that appear in several of the commentaries. First, we elaborate on our decision to maintain a focus on the ocean, rather than turning to a term that speaks more clearly to geographic categories (e.g. the sea), elemental foundations (e.g. water), earth-system processes (e.g. the hydrosphere). Secondly, we address the critique that, in our effort to highlight the ocean's geophysical liveliness, we may overlook the ocean's liveliness as a space continually made through human and more-than-human encounters, cultural understandings and histories.