Encounters in the ebb and flood

Knowing marine ecologies in the intertidal contact zone

Bibliographic Data

ID4842515
AuthorsAurora Fredriksen (0000-0003-4287-3443)
Year2019
Volume2
Issue4
Pages761-780
Publication date2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2514848619833909
OpenAlexW2947365299
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited33

Shifting rhythmically between land and sea with the ebb and flood tides, shores are places where humans and nonhumans encounter one another in ambivalent relations of deep familiarity and enduring strangeness. In this article, I use the space of the intertidal contact zone to think through a series of uneven encounters between humans and marine wildlife that populate a dispute over tidal energy testing in the Bay of Fundy's Minas Passage. I trace two contact zones through which knowledge about marine wildlife in the Bay of Fundy is generated: first, the contact zone continually (re-)assembled through the encounters of small-scale and traditional fishers with marine wildlife, and second, the contact zone staged in remote encounters between marine scientists and marine wildlife. The article reflects on the role of bodies in and out of encounter in the different ways of knowing about marine wildlife in this case and considers ethical possibilities and limits of knowing through, versus without, contact with nonhuman animals in the intertidal contact zone

Ambivalence · Archaeology · Bay · Biology · Fishery · Flood myth · Geography · Intertidal zone · Shore · Wildlife · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Marine animal studies overview · Psychology · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography

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