SEATIMES: How Climate Change Transforms Human-Marine Temporalities
Informations
- Funding country
Norway- Acronym
- -
- URL
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- Start date
- 1/1/2021
- End date
- 12/31/2026
- Budget
- 1,194,084 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRIHUMSAM - Independent Projects humaniora and social sciences | Grant | - | - | 1,194,084 EUR |
Abstract
Fish and other marine creatures shape the life of coastal people around the world. What happens then, when marine ecosystems change massively due to climate change? The world's oceans are undergoing significant changes. Waters acidify and temperatures are rising rapidly. Marine life responds to these changes by seeking new migration routes and new waters to inhabit. For people whose lives are shaped by their relations with these marine creatures, such transformations may have important consequences. The SEATIMES project aims to investigate these changes and asks how climate change transforms the relations people have with marine life. In order to understand better how human-marine relations operate and transform, SEATIMES suggests that we must look beyond those relations where humans relate to marine life as economic resources. SEATIME therefore looks rather at the temporal aspects of human-marine relations by asking: 1. How do changes in human-marine relations impact people’s relations to the past, their experience of the presence and their imaginations of the future? 2. How do society’s rhythms change as the seasonal variations of marine life and the everyday work patterns related to them change? 3. How do people respond by attempting to stop, slow down, restore or otherwise intervene in these changes? In order to understand the varieties of transformations in human-marine relations around the world, SEATIMES will focus on three specific cases. In Senegal, we will investigate the disappearance of the important sardinella fish. In Maine, US, we will look at how warming waters causes massive catches of lobsters. In Norway, we study how new species such as snow crab and Pacific oysters poses both challenges and opportunities. Through these cases, we expect SEATIMES to develop a new marine anthropology that provides a broader and better understanding of how humans and marine life are interrelated and how climate change causes transformations in these interrelations.