Call for Papers by Marie Grasmeier
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Dear colleagues,
we are editing the book "Maritime Spaces and S... more **Apologies for cross-posting**
Dear colleagues,
we are editing the book "Maritime Spaces and Society: Selected Studies in Maritime Sociology" and would like to invite you to contribute a chapter. The book will be published in 2021. If you are interested in contributing a chapter to our book you could submit an abstract of not more than 300 words to maritime-sociology@posteo.net until February 1, 2020.
We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts!
Best regards,
Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś, Univerity of Szczecin, Poland
Frank Sowa, Nuemberg Tech, Germany
Marie C. Grasmeier, University of Bremen, Germany
***
Call for Chapters
Maritime Spaces and Society: Selected Studies in Maritime Sociology
(eds. Agnieszka Kolodziej-Durnas, Frank Sowa, Marie C. Grasmeier)
Sociologists’ interest in society and sea has a long and rich tradition. Some of the founding fathers of sociology did research on specific maritime spaces. For instance, in 1896, the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies analysed the working conditions and wages of different maritime professions as well as the major strike of 1896/97 in Hamburg. Today, Tönnies is regarded as the founder of maritime sociology. But also, for other classical sociologists maritime spaces were not unfamiliar. Norbert Elias was interested in studying the careers of naval professions and intended to publish a book on that topic. In Poland, sociologists have been conducting research in the field of maritime research for over half a century now. Maritime sociology issues are also studied e.g. in the UK, Scandinavia and Mediterranean countries as well as in North America and East Asia with its main contributions from Chinese, Korean and Japanese ocean sociology and sociologists from the Philippines as a major source country of global seafarers.
Maritime spaces include oceans and ships as well as coastal areas. Ecological (overfishing, decline in biodiversity, climate change, ocean pollution), economic (de-industrialization, whaling moratorium, structural change, development of alternative industries) and cultural crises (destabilization of collective identities of seaside and island inhabitants, cultural practices of sharing, inhabitants’ knowledge, local traditions, transformations of maritime professions) cumulate in these maritime spaces. While research on maritime issues is dominated by natural science disciplines, the protection of maritime natural sources and the need for sustainable development also demands research on the ‘human factor’ and a social sciences perspective on maritime spaces as well.
The dynamics of economic development in recent decades has led to the disappearance of traditional images while new opportunities in the maritime sector are emerging. While the maritime economy in post-communist countries often experienced some collapse, in the western part of Europe it was exposed to intensive technological, economic and political changes as well as threatened by strong competition e.g. from Asia. These changes are associated with the emergence of open ship registers, an increased global division of labour regarding the separation of ownership and management and a global labour market for seafarers with the rise of labour supply countries of the global South. Due to the changing positions of maritime professions in the social structure as well as cross cultural, transcultural and postcolonial issues associated with the labour milieu of seafarers, fishermen, dockers and ship yard workers, gender discrimination and diversity management have emerged as topics of maritime social sciences.
The knowledge of marine ecosystems provides a good indication of the current status of the sea and is seen as essential in the field of natural resource management. This implies a profound and detailed knowledge of the marine ecosystems and marine animals. However, there are different types of knowledge – local, users’, indigenous, scientific knowledge – which should be integrated into decision-making processes or environmental governance. The so-called co-management regimes are institutional arrangements in which government agencies with jurisdiction over resources and user groups cooperate and agree on e.g. data gathering and analysis, harvest allocation decisions or enforcement of regulations. Co-management incorporating stakeholders offers major opportunities for incorporating tacit knowledge, skills, and practices into formal resource management regimes and takes place at a regional level that is more meaningful to most people. Various kinds of co-management regimes, case studies of knowledge-integration in practice and the analysis of asymmetric power relations must be considered by studies in maritime sociology.
Occupational and cultural identities of coastal communities and port cities are influenced by the sea and seaside activities. Hence, we welcome papers dealing with aspects of specific culture in seaside areas. Is there a maritime culture or maritime cultures? Are port cities a different kind of cities? Are social bonds in maritime regions different from those in non-maritime ones? Can social scientists speak of specific lifestyles, norms and values system and organizational culture referring to seaside communities and maritime industry companies?
As a sociological sub-field maritime sociology needs both the recapitulation of its proto-history and meta-theoretical elaboration of its future development in an academic world. Also, the prospects of applying various empirical approaches should be discussed by the researchers interested in exploring the mutual relations of society and sea. We have organized sessions during the conferences of the European Sociological Association in the past 10 years (Lisbon in 2009, Geneva 2011, Turin 2013, Prague 2015, Manchester 2019). Similar sessions took place at Polish and German national sociological conferences where they brought together scholars from sociology from all over the world to continue a discussion on the interrelations between society and the sea.
In our book Maritime Spaces and Society: Selected Studies in Maritime Sociology we would like to exchange theoretical perspectives on maritime issues from a historical point of view (from the founding fathers of sociology to recent theories) and present all fields of empirical maritime sociology research (e.g. sustainability issues, seaside local communities, construction of collective community identity) including a variety of methods (discourse analysis, grounded theory, qualitative interviews, quantitative methods, ethnography). We would like to discuss how sociology and related disciplines are approaching the subject of maritime issues and what kind of strengths and weaknesses are associated with such a perspective of maritime social sciences.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• History and Theoretical Foundations of Maritime Sociology
• Seafarers’ and Fishers’ Labour Milieu
• Seafarers’ and Fishers’ Families
• Port Cities
• Women at Sea and Gender Aspects
• Maritime Industry Organizations
• Maritime Communities
• Maritime Culture
• Maritime Education and Upbringing
• Maritime Policies
We welcome theoretical and empirical chapter proposals on a wide array of issues that address maritime spaces and society. Anyone interested in contributing a chapter to our book should submit an abstract to maritime-sociology@posteo.net. Please submit your abstract of not more than 300 words in English language until February 1, 2020.
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n my doctoral research, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I explored processes of occupational b... more n my doctoral research, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I explored processes of occupational boundary-work among seafarers on global merchant ships. In this presentation, I will focus on the significance of everyday practices of discipline and the effects these practices have on seafarers’ everyday life. The workplace organisation on these ships resembles a quasi-military disciplinary regime, which these practices serve to maintain. Simultaneously, the hierarchical structure widely parallels the ethnic segmentation of the crew. (White) Europeans hold most of the senior positions while the junior officers and ratings mostly originate from labour supply countries of the global South. Thus, the ship constitutes a postcolonial space where global North-South relations project into the well-defined space on the micro-level of interpersonal relations among crewmembers. Therefore, it is often not apparent from the individual empirical cases whether the observed practices are instances of boundary-work in terms of ‘race’ or formal rank. The authoritarian practice of discipline contradicts, on the one hand, the practical demands of the labour process on seafarers to take the initiative and solve problems independently, and on the other hand the ideology of the ‘new spirit of capitalism’. In my presentation, I will explore the effects these, often racialised, disciplinary practices have on everyday life on board. First, seafarers reported an omnipresent ‘fear of authority’ which also became evident in everyday interactions. Second, the authoritarian structure tended to transgress into the sphere of leisure relations. Despite contrary intentions, the seafarers reproduced relations of power, domination and subordination within their private interactions.
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My name is Marie C. Grasmeier and I am a doctoral candidate at Bremen University in the field of ... more My name is Marie C. Grasmeier and I am a doctoral candidate at Bremen University in the field of social anthropology. The subject of my doctoral thesis is an ethnography about the occupational culture and everyday practices of the construction of occupational identities by seafarers on board internationally crewed merchant ships. This is, e.g., container ships whose crew consists of people from several countries all over the world. I investigated my research question by means of ethnographic fieldwork on board merchant vessels. I also draw on autoethnographic data (cf.: Adams, Holman Jones, and Ellis 2015; Ellis, Adams, and Bochner 2011; Chang 2008; Anderson 2006) that are available to me since I, as a former merchant seafarer, have myself been a member of my research field. The following presentation is just a small part of my research findings. I will argue that former seafarers employed in shore jobs after quitting their ocean going careers retain a strong sense of belonging and underline this sense by retaining certain language, practices and behavioural patterns belonging to life at sea even in the new occupational setting. In short, my thesis is that they orchestrate what is called a "déformation professionelle" (Warnotte 1937) as a means of identity performance. Before I dig deep into theoretical considerations, I like to present an auto-ethnographic story from my working life in the maritime industry: Twelve years ago I started working as a researcher in a maritime research institute at a university. About half of the workforce of this institute were formerly active seafarers, like master mariners-this is captains-and chief engineers. The other half were scientists and 1
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Guten Abend und herzlich willkommen zu meinem Vortrag über das Schiff als so-zialer Ort. Ganz her... more Guten Abend und herzlich willkommen zu meinem Vortrag über das Schiff als so-zialer Ort. Ganz herzlichen Dank an Ulrike Kronfeld-Goharani für die Einladung, hier heute Abend sprechen zu dürfen. Das Thema meines Vortrages ist Teil meiner Dissertationsschrift über die Arbeits-kultur und die Konstruktion der Berufsidentitäten von Seeleuten auf international besetzten Handelsschiffen. Methoden Die Daten zur Bearbeitung meines Dissertationsthemas habe ich unter anderem während einer etwa zweimonatigen Feldforschung an Bord eines Containerschif-fes sowie in Interviews mit Seeleuten an Bord und an Land erhoben. Zudem greife ich auf eigene biographische Erfahrungen aus meiner Zeit als Mitglied meines Forschungsfeldes zurück. Diese stehen mir deshalb zur Verfügung, weil ich zuvor selbst die Ausbildung zur nautischen Schiffsoffizierin durchlaufen hatte, wobei ich etwa zwölf Monate auf international besetzten Handelsschiffen zur See gefahren bin, und nach meinem Studium mehrere Jahre als Dozentin an einer Seefahrtschu-le sowie als Ladungsinspektorin im Hafen tätig war, wo meine Aufgabe darin be-stand, die Aufsicht über das Be-und Entladen von Seeschiffen zu führen.
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n my doctoral research, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I explored processes of occupational b... more n my doctoral research, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I explored processes of occupational boundary-work among seafarers on global merchant ships. In this presentation, I will focus on the significance of everyday practices of discipline and the effects these practices have on seafarers’ everyday life. The workplace organisation on these ships resembles a quasi-military disciplinary regime, which these practices serve to maintain. Simultaneously, the hierarchical structure widely parallels the ethnic segmentation of the crew. (White) Europeans hold most of the senior positions while the junior officers and ratings mostly originate from labour supply countries of the global South. Thus, the ship constitutes a postcolonial space where global North-South relations project into the well-defined space on the micro-level of interpersonal relations among crewmembers. Therefore, it is often not apparent from the individual empirical cases whether the observed practices are instances of boundary-work in terms of ‘race’ or formal rank. The authoritarian practice of discipline contradicts, on the one hand, the practical demands of the labour process on seafarers to take the initiative and solve problems independently, and on the other hand the ideology of the ‘new spirit of capitalism’. In my presentation, I will explore the effects these, often racialised, disciplinary practices have on everyday life on board. First, seafarers reported an omnipresent ‘fear of authority’ which also became evident in everyday interactions. Second, the authoritarian structure tended to transgress into the sphere of leisure relations. Despite contrary intentions, the seafarers reproduced relations of power, domination and subordination within their private interactions.
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Call for Papers by Marie Grasmeier
Dear colleagues,
we are editing the book "Maritime Spaces and Society: Selected Studies in Maritime Sociology" and would like to invite you to contribute a chapter. The book will be published in 2021. If you are interested in contributing a chapter to our book you could submit an abstract of not more than 300 words to maritime-sociology@posteo.net until February 1, 2020.
We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts!
Best regards,
Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś, Univerity of Szczecin, Poland
Frank Sowa, Nuemberg Tech, Germany
Marie C. Grasmeier, University of Bremen, Germany
***
Call for Chapters
Maritime Spaces and Society: Selected Studies in Maritime Sociology
(eds. Agnieszka Kolodziej-Durnas, Frank Sowa, Marie C. Grasmeier)
Sociologists’ interest in society and sea has a long and rich tradition. Some of the founding fathers of sociology did research on specific maritime spaces. For instance, in 1896, the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies analysed the working conditions and wages of different maritime professions as well as the major strike of 1896/97 in Hamburg. Today, Tönnies is regarded as the founder of maritime sociology. But also, for other classical sociologists maritime spaces were not unfamiliar. Norbert Elias was interested in studying the careers of naval professions and intended to publish a book on that topic. In Poland, sociologists have been conducting research in the field of maritime research for over half a century now. Maritime sociology issues are also studied e.g. in the UK, Scandinavia and Mediterranean countries as well as in North America and East Asia with its main contributions from Chinese, Korean and Japanese ocean sociology and sociologists from the Philippines as a major source country of global seafarers.
Maritime spaces include oceans and ships as well as coastal areas. Ecological (overfishing, decline in biodiversity, climate change, ocean pollution), economic (de-industrialization, whaling moratorium, structural change, development of alternative industries) and cultural crises (destabilization of collective identities of seaside and island inhabitants, cultural practices of sharing, inhabitants’ knowledge, local traditions, transformations of maritime professions) cumulate in these maritime spaces. While research on maritime issues is dominated by natural science disciplines, the protection of maritime natural sources and the need for sustainable development also demands research on the ‘human factor’ and a social sciences perspective on maritime spaces as well.
The dynamics of economic development in recent decades has led to the disappearance of traditional images while new opportunities in the maritime sector are emerging. While the maritime economy in post-communist countries often experienced some collapse, in the western part of Europe it was exposed to intensive technological, economic and political changes as well as threatened by strong competition e.g. from Asia. These changes are associated with the emergence of open ship registers, an increased global division of labour regarding the separation of ownership and management and a global labour market for seafarers with the rise of labour supply countries of the global South. Due to the changing positions of maritime professions in the social structure as well as cross cultural, transcultural and postcolonial issues associated with the labour milieu of seafarers, fishermen, dockers and ship yard workers, gender discrimination and diversity management have emerged as topics of maritime social sciences.
The knowledge of marine ecosystems provides a good indication of the current status of the sea and is seen as essential in the field of natural resource management. This implies a profound and detailed knowledge of the marine ecosystems and marine animals. However, there are different types of knowledge – local, users’, indigenous, scientific knowledge – which should be integrated into decision-making processes or environmental governance. The so-called co-management regimes are institutional arrangements in which government agencies with jurisdiction over resources and user groups cooperate and agree on e.g. data gathering and analysis, harvest allocation decisions or enforcement of regulations. Co-management incorporating stakeholders offers major opportunities for incorporating tacit knowledge, skills, and practices into formal resource management regimes and takes place at a regional level that is more meaningful to most people. Various kinds of co-management regimes, case studies of knowledge-integration in practice and the analysis of asymmetric power relations must be considered by studies in maritime sociology.
Occupational and cultural identities of coastal communities and port cities are influenced by the sea and seaside activities. Hence, we welcome papers dealing with aspects of specific culture in seaside areas. Is there a maritime culture or maritime cultures? Are port cities a different kind of cities? Are social bonds in maritime regions different from those in non-maritime ones? Can social scientists speak of specific lifestyles, norms and values system and organizational culture referring to seaside communities and maritime industry companies?
As a sociological sub-field maritime sociology needs both the recapitulation of its proto-history and meta-theoretical elaboration of its future development in an academic world. Also, the prospects of applying various empirical approaches should be discussed by the researchers interested in exploring the mutual relations of society and sea. We have organized sessions during the conferences of the European Sociological Association in the past 10 years (Lisbon in 2009, Geneva 2011, Turin 2013, Prague 2015, Manchester 2019). Similar sessions took place at Polish and German national sociological conferences where they brought together scholars from sociology from all over the world to continue a discussion on the interrelations between society and the sea.
In our book Maritime Spaces and Society: Selected Studies in Maritime Sociology we would like to exchange theoretical perspectives on maritime issues from a historical point of view (from the founding fathers of sociology to recent theories) and present all fields of empirical maritime sociology research (e.g. sustainability issues, seaside local communities, construction of collective community identity) including a variety of methods (discourse analysis, grounded theory, qualitative interviews, quantitative methods, ethnography). We would like to discuss how sociology and related disciplines are approaching the subject of maritime issues and what kind of strengths and weaknesses are associated with such a perspective of maritime social sciences.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• History and Theoretical Foundations of Maritime Sociology
• Seafarers’ and Fishers’ Labour Milieu
• Seafarers’ and Fishers’ Families
• Port Cities
• Women at Sea and Gender Aspects
• Maritime Industry Organizations
• Maritime Communities
• Maritime Culture
• Maritime Education and Upbringing
• Maritime Policies
We welcome theoretical and empirical chapter proposals on a wide array of issues that address maritime spaces and society. Anyone interested in contributing a chapter to our book should submit an abstract to maritime-sociology@posteo.net. Please submit your abstract of not more than 300 words in English language until February 1, 2020.
Conference Presentations by Marie Grasmeier
Talks by Marie Grasmeier
Papers by Marie Grasmeier
Dear colleagues,
we are editing the book "Maritime Spaces and Society: Selected Studies in Maritime Sociology" and would like to invite you to contribute a chapter. The book will be published in 2021. If you are interested in contributing a chapter to our book you could submit an abstract of not more than 300 words to maritime-sociology@posteo.net until February 1, 2020.
We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts!
Best regards,
Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś, Univerity of Szczecin, Poland
Frank Sowa, Nuemberg Tech, Germany
Marie C. Grasmeier, University of Bremen, Germany
***
Call for Chapters
Maritime Spaces and Society: Selected Studies in Maritime Sociology
(eds. Agnieszka Kolodziej-Durnas, Frank Sowa, Marie C. Grasmeier)
Sociologists’ interest in society and sea has a long and rich tradition. Some of the founding fathers of sociology did research on specific maritime spaces. For instance, in 1896, the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies analysed the working conditions and wages of different maritime professions as well as the major strike of 1896/97 in Hamburg. Today, Tönnies is regarded as the founder of maritime sociology. But also, for other classical sociologists maritime spaces were not unfamiliar. Norbert Elias was interested in studying the careers of naval professions and intended to publish a book on that topic. In Poland, sociologists have been conducting research in the field of maritime research for over half a century now. Maritime sociology issues are also studied e.g. in the UK, Scandinavia and Mediterranean countries as well as in North America and East Asia with its main contributions from Chinese, Korean and Japanese ocean sociology and sociologists from the Philippines as a major source country of global seafarers.
Maritime spaces include oceans and ships as well as coastal areas. Ecological (overfishing, decline in biodiversity, climate change, ocean pollution), economic (de-industrialization, whaling moratorium, structural change, development of alternative industries) and cultural crises (destabilization of collective identities of seaside and island inhabitants, cultural practices of sharing, inhabitants’ knowledge, local traditions, transformations of maritime professions) cumulate in these maritime spaces. While research on maritime issues is dominated by natural science disciplines, the protection of maritime natural sources and the need for sustainable development also demands research on the ‘human factor’ and a social sciences perspective on maritime spaces as well.
The dynamics of economic development in recent decades has led to the disappearance of traditional images while new opportunities in the maritime sector are emerging. While the maritime economy in post-communist countries often experienced some collapse, in the western part of Europe it was exposed to intensive technological, economic and political changes as well as threatened by strong competition e.g. from Asia. These changes are associated with the emergence of open ship registers, an increased global division of labour regarding the separation of ownership and management and a global labour market for seafarers with the rise of labour supply countries of the global South. Due to the changing positions of maritime professions in the social structure as well as cross cultural, transcultural and postcolonial issues associated with the labour milieu of seafarers, fishermen, dockers and ship yard workers, gender discrimination and diversity management have emerged as topics of maritime social sciences.
The knowledge of marine ecosystems provides a good indication of the current status of the sea and is seen as essential in the field of natural resource management. This implies a profound and detailed knowledge of the marine ecosystems and marine animals. However, there are different types of knowledge – local, users’, indigenous, scientific knowledge – which should be integrated into decision-making processes or environmental governance. The so-called co-management regimes are institutional arrangements in which government agencies with jurisdiction over resources and user groups cooperate and agree on e.g. data gathering and analysis, harvest allocation decisions or enforcement of regulations. Co-management incorporating stakeholders offers major opportunities for incorporating tacit knowledge, skills, and practices into formal resource management regimes and takes place at a regional level that is more meaningful to most people. Various kinds of co-management regimes, case studies of knowledge-integration in practice and the analysis of asymmetric power relations must be considered by studies in maritime sociology.
Occupational and cultural identities of coastal communities and port cities are influenced by the sea and seaside activities. Hence, we welcome papers dealing with aspects of specific culture in seaside areas. Is there a maritime culture or maritime cultures? Are port cities a different kind of cities? Are social bonds in maritime regions different from those in non-maritime ones? Can social scientists speak of specific lifestyles, norms and values system and organizational culture referring to seaside communities and maritime industry companies?
As a sociological sub-field maritime sociology needs both the recapitulation of its proto-history and meta-theoretical elaboration of its future development in an academic world. Also, the prospects of applying various empirical approaches should be discussed by the researchers interested in exploring the mutual relations of society and sea. We have organized sessions during the conferences of the European Sociological Association in the past 10 years (Lisbon in 2009, Geneva 2011, Turin 2013, Prague 2015, Manchester 2019). Similar sessions took place at Polish and German national sociological conferences where they brought together scholars from sociology from all over the world to continue a discussion on the interrelations between society and the sea.
In our book Maritime Spaces and Society: Selected Studies in Maritime Sociology we would like to exchange theoretical perspectives on maritime issues from a historical point of view (from the founding fathers of sociology to recent theories) and present all fields of empirical maritime sociology research (e.g. sustainability issues, seaside local communities, construction of collective community identity) including a variety of methods (discourse analysis, grounded theory, qualitative interviews, quantitative methods, ethnography). We would like to discuss how sociology and related disciplines are approaching the subject of maritime issues and what kind of strengths and weaknesses are associated with such a perspective of maritime social sciences.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• History and Theoretical Foundations of Maritime Sociology
• Seafarers’ and Fishers’ Labour Milieu
• Seafarers’ and Fishers’ Families
• Port Cities
• Women at Sea and Gender Aspects
• Maritime Industry Organizations
• Maritime Communities
• Maritime Culture
• Maritime Education and Upbringing
• Maritime Policies
We welcome theoretical and empirical chapter proposals on a wide array of issues that address maritime spaces and society. Anyone interested in contributing a chapter to our book should submit an abstract to maritime-sociology@posteo.net. Please submit your abstract of not more than 300 words in English language until February 1, 2020.