Rob Wilson

Oceanic Becoming

The Pacific Beneath the Pavements

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Produktbeschreibung

Outline the environmental crises the world’s oceans currently face, Rob Wilson theorizes a practice of “worlding,” which would build upon existing social ties to the ocean that would provide the basis for new forms of belonging and ecological futures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478028260
• ISBN-10: 1478028262
• Artikelnr.: 71162969

Autorenporträt

Rob Wilson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Pacific beneath the Pavements: Toward a Blue Ecopoetics of
Oceanic Belonging  1
I. Worlding Pacific Poesis
1. Becoming Oceania: Ecopoetics across the Planetary Pacific Rim, or
“Walking on Water Wasn’t Built in a Day”  31
2. Worlding Asia Pacific into Oceania: Concepts, Tactics, and
Transfigurations inside the Anthropocene  51
II. Worlding the Pacific Rim
3. Toward a Blue Ecopoetics: Worlding the Asia Pacific Region into
Figurations of Oceania at Monterey Bay  71
4. Migrant Blockages, Global Flows: Worlding San Francisco in a
Global-Local and Transoceanic Frame  92
III. Transpacific Conjugations: Unmaking and Remaking Worlds
5. Under a Golden Gate “Mushroom Cloud”: Urban Space, Ecological
Consciousness, and the Pedagogy of Blue Conversion  111
6. Hiroshima Sublime: Trauma, Japan, and the US Asia Pacific Imaginary  126
7. Waking to Global Capitalism and Oceanic Decentering: Reworlding US
Poetics across Native Hawai‘i and the Pacific Rim  141
Epilogue. Transplanted Poesis: Writing Oceania and the World  161
Notes  167
Bibliography  197
Index