Brown Mike - Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea

SEASCAPES: SHAPED BY THE SEA

In memory of Russell Brown (19372011),
who fostered and supported
a love of the sea

Embodied Narratives and Fluid Geographies

Edited by

MIKE BROWN
University of Waikato, New Zealand

and

BARBARA HUMBERSTONE
Buckinghamshire New University, UK

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Brown, Mike.

Seascapes: shaped by the sea / by Mike Brown and Barbara Humberstone.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-2433-4 (hardback: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4724-2434-1 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-4724-2435-8 (epub) 1. Ocean Social aspects. 2. Ocean and civilization. I. Humberstone, Barbara. II. Title.

GC11.2.B78 2015

551.46--dc23

2014023413

ISBN 9781472424334 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315607931 (ebk)

Mike Brown and Barbara Humberstone

Mike Brown

Barbara Humberstone

lisahunter

Jon Anderson

Robyn Zink

Mihi Nemani

Peter Reason

Karen Barbour

Brian Wattchow

Robbie Nicol

Karen Throsby

elke emerald and Fiona Ewing

Barbara Humberstone and Mike Brown

Jon Anderson is a senior lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University. His research interests focus on the relations between culture, place and identity, particularly the geographies, politics and practices that emerge from these. His key publications include: Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces (2010), Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean (with K. Peters, 2014), and Page and Place: Ongoing Compositions of Plot (2015).

Karen Barbour is a senior lecturer in Dance in the Faculty of Education, The University of Waikato. Her research focuses on embodied ways of knowing in dance and explorations of cultural identity through autoethnographic writing and performance. She is the editor of Dance Research Aotearoa (http://www.dra.ac.nz), author of Dancing across the Page: Narrative and Embodied Ways of Knowing (Intellect Books, 2011) and co-editor of Ethnographic Worldviews: Social Justice and Transformation (Springer, 2014).

Mike Brown, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education, The University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is co-author of A Pedagogy of Place: Outdoor Education for a Changing World (2011) and editor of the NZ Journal of Outdoor Education. Introduced to boating at a young age, he has been involved in sail training in the UK and cruised the SW Pacific by sailboat. He is an occasional sea kayaker, diver and open water swimmer. He currently enjoys sailboat cruising in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland.

elke emerald is a senior lecturer at Griffith University, Australia. She teaches research methods in the Faculty of Education. elkes research has interrogated the construction of categories in social life and the real lived impact on individuals of societys insistence on maintaining limited and limiting ways of being. Her book Stories from the Margins (2009) examines the experiences of mothers of children with disability. elkes co-authored book, Participatory Activist Research, was released in 2013 (Springer). Her current research uses narrative, ethnographic and autoethnographic methods to investigate the resilience of researchers in the academy.

Fiona Ewing has a Bachelor of Science in Biological Oceanography and postgraduate qualifications in Fisheries Science. She has extensive at sea experience in a number of fisheries. She has worked onboard both foreign and domestic fishing boats, providing compliance data to fisheries management agencies, technical support to fisheries research and leading research sampling programmes. Fiona presently works in environmentally sustainable fish farming. As Tasmanias State Rural Woman of the Year, she researched projects to revive remote communities through sustainable fish farming enterprises.

Barbara Humberstone, PhD, is a professor of Sociology of Sport and Outdoor Education at Buckinghamshire New University, UK. Her research interests include: embodiment and nature-based sport, and well-being and outdoor pedagogies. She co-edited Whose Journeys? The Outdoors and Adventure as Social and Culture Phenomena (2003) and has published papers in a variety of journals. She is the managing editor of Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning and was Chair of the European Institute for Outdoor Adventure Education and Experiential Learning. She is a keen windsurfer and walker.

The Pacific Ocean has played a large part in lisahunters life. E currently researches and lectures in Aotearoa New Zealand in the fields of education, health, sport and leisure. Time spent with the sea has regrettably diminished due to increasingly long work hours, which is a downside of neo-liberal agendas in tertiary education. As such, this chapter was written as a freelance academic outside normal work time due to increasing work demands.

Over the past decade Mihi Nemani has been passionately involved in the sport of bodyboarding at national and international levels, through competing and assisting in the running of competitions. While training for competitions, she has had many experiences that have influenced her life and made her reflect on her identity in and out of the surf. Her research interests involve investigating the roles ethnicity and gender play when participating in lifestyle sports such as bodyboarding. In her role as principal lecturer in the School of Sport at Manukau Institute of Technology she is able to draw on her experiences and research to help her students understand the importance of their own identities in relation to sport.

Robbie Nicol is a senior lecturer in Outdoor and Environmental Education and Head of Institute for Education, Teaching and Leadership at Moray House School of Education, the University of Edinburgh. His life motivation comes from the realisation that human activities are fundamentally altering the planets ability to sustain us in the long term. As an educator, he believes that the outdoors provides places where people can rediscover their direct dependence on the planet through embodied experiences. His teaching and research interests are directed towards the theoretical development and practical implementation of environmental education, sustainability education and epistemological diversity particularly in the outdoors.