Sea Visibility and the Anxious Coastal Gaze

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.3197/ge.2021.140308

Isaac Land

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Abstract

A number of historians have drawn attention to the incomplete or highly selective visibility of oceanic activity to land-dwellers. Some have gone so far as to refer to 'sea blindness'. However, particularly for scholars with an interest in coastal areas, 'sea blindness' does not capture the intense visibility of beaches and coastal cities in the twentieth century. It also does not engage with changes in science and technology which have permitted the creation and dissemination of vivid images from deep underwater. A critical interrogation of sea visibility, then, is urgently needed. A new term, the 'anxious coastal gaze,' is proposed. This short article discusses two examples of sea visibility in the context of the anxious coastal gaze: oil spills and illegal waterborne migrants. It concludes with a discussion of the future of the anxious coastal gaze in an era of climate crisis and sea level rise.

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海上能见度和焦虑的海岸凝视

许多历史学家已经提请注意陆地居民对海洋活动的不完全或高度选择性的可见性。有些人甚至称之为“海盲”。然而，特别是对于对沿海地区感兴趣的学者来说，“海盲”并没有捕捉到20世纪海滩和沿海城市的强烈可见性。它也不涉及科学和技术的变化，这些变化已经允许从深海创造和传播生动的图像。因此，迫切需要对海上能见度进行关键的调查。有人提出了一个新名词“焦虑的沿海凝视”。这篇短文讨论了两个例子，在焦虑的沿海凝视的背景下，海洋能见度:石油泄漏和非法水上移民。它最后讨论了在气候危机和海平面上升的时代，焦虑的沿海凝视的未来。

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Global Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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0.50

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25.00%

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期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.