“I’ve Had Dolphins…Looking for Abalone for Me”

Oral History and the Subjectivities of Marine Engagement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID17539214
AutoresAndrea Gaynor (0000-0002-5633-9797, autor de correspondencia), Joy McCann
Año2017
Volumen44
Número2
Páginas260-277
Fecha de publicación2017-05-05
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Oral History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0798 • E-ISSN: 1533-8592
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ohr/ohx023
OpenAlexW2596365826
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas9

While oral histories have been used as a source of information about marine species and ecosystems in the past, this article explores how oral histories of fishers and divers can be read as narratives about human relationships with marine environments and animals. We propose that in listening closely to people who have long and intimate experience of the underwater world, we can begin to understand the emotional and experiential dimensions of unsustainable fishing practices. These narratives also encourage us to acknowledge and take seriously the ongoing significance of anthropomorphism as a way of conceptualizing and relating to the nonhuman world. Oral histories have a significant role to play in fostering human capacity and, indeed, desire to live ethically in and with a more-than-human (marine) world

Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Environmental ethics · Experiential learning · Fishery · Fishing · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Communication · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies