Sydney Environment Institute celebrates the publication of _Sustaining
Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care_, edited by Elspeth
Probyn, Kate Johnston, and Nancy Lee with this interdisciplinary
academic panel._Sustaining Seas _foregrounds conversations across, and
within, several disciplines, including practitioners of different
specialities (artists, writers, planners, policy makers) about how to
sustain the seas, as they sustain us. _Sustaining Seas_ aims to build
a better understanding of what it means to care for aquatic places and
their biocultural communities. The book takes the reader in different
directions, and sometimes into whirlpools of historical fact,
fictions, and legal frictions. _Sustaining Seas_ assumes that
understanding complexity, including social, cultural, colonial,
ecological and economic interconnections, is crucial to any
interrogation of the marine human.
Join the editors, and contributing authors Alana Mann, Adriana Vergés
and Amaia Sánchez-Velasco in a panel discussion moderated by Tess
Lea, followed by a Q&A.
SPEAKERS:
Tess Lea (Moderator) is an Associate Professor who specialises in the
anthropology of policy. Her fundamental interest is with issues of
(dys)function: how it occurs and to what, whom and how it is ascribed.
Looking at extraction industries, everyday militarisation, houses,
infrastructure (e.g. plumbing and roads), schools, and efforts to
create culturally congruent forms of employment and enterprise from
multiple perspectives, her work asks why the path to realising
seemingly straightforward ambitions is so densely obstacled.
Alana Mann is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and
Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), University
of Sydney, Australia, and a key researcher in the University’s
Sydney Environment Institute. Her research focuses on the
communicative dimensions of citizen engagement, participation, and
collective action in food systems planning and governance.
Elspeth Probyn is Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies at the
University of Sydney. The author of numerous monographs and
collections, in the last ten years her research has turned to
questions about the sustainability of the production and consumption
of fish (Eating the Ocean, Duke University Press, 2016). Selling the
Seas, her current research project funded by the ARC, uses urban fish
markets as localised optics into ever widening global problems: the
politics of sea grabbing, illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU)
fishing and geopolitical marine conflict, ocean warming, pollution,
and the densification of coastal cities.
Amaia Sánchez-Velasco is an architect and educator, co-founder of
Grandeza Studio, an architectural collective that operates between the
fields of spatial practice, design, cultural production and
pedagogical explorations. Their research and collaborative creative
practice detects, denounces and challenges the transformative violence
that late-capitalism practices apply over subjects, spaces and
ecologies.
Adriana Vergés is a Associate Professor and marine ecologist based at
UNSW Sydney. Her research focuses on the ecological impacts of climate
change in our oceans and how to develop restoration solutions to
rewild our coastlines. Adriana was awarded a Green Globe Award in 2017
for her ‘Operation Crayweed’ work restoring Sydney’s underwater
forests, and she received the inaugural UNSW Emerging Thought Leader
Prize in 2019.
LAUNCHED BY:
Michelle Voyer is a Senior Research Fellow with the Australian
National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the
University of Wollongong. Her research focuses on the human dimensions
of marine conservation and resource management, and the nexus of
social science and policy, including commercial and recreational
fisheries, MPAs, Indigenous cultural fishing and maritime and ocean
uses as part of an emerging ‘Blue Economy’.
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