{"title":"Terrestrial links to ocean health","authors":"Heather Swanson","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.12964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12964","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This guest editorial examines the critical but often overlooked relationship between terrestrial activities and ocean health. Swanson argues that while marine environments face numerous ecological challenges, most originate from land-based practices, including agricultural runoff, industrial pollution, and carbon emissions. Using the Baltic Sea as a case study, she demonstrates how industrial agriculture has transformed marine ecosystems, creating dead zones and threatening hundreds of species. The author critiques approaches that maintain land-sea dichotomies and calls for more integrated research across disciplinary boundaries. Drawing on anthropological methods, Swanson advocates for holistic approaches that recognize the interconnectedness of terrestrial and marine systems, incorporate Indigenous knowledge practices, and address the systemic transformations needed in political economy and ecology to effectively care for ocean environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144185894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front and Back Covers, Volume 41, Number 3. June 2025","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.12885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12885","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Front and back cover caption, volume 41 issue 3</p><p>Front cover caption, volume 41 issue 3</p><p>TENDING THE TIDES</p><p>A living collage of marine lives interacting with human systems and care practices. Sea cucumbers rest on Tanzanian coastal sands; oyster spat cling to North Sea reef structures; turtles navigate Akumal Bay's complex ecologies; lobsters and whales negotiate Maine's fishing waters; salmon traverse Heiltsuk territories; jellyfish drift with the tides. This montage foregrounds our special issue's proposition: ocean care is inherently a more-than-human collaboration.</p><p>Care manifests in various forms. In Kaole, communities cultivate sea cucumbers that cleanse benthic sediments while global markets threaten to commodify them. In Akumal Bay, the charismatic appeal of turtles enables biologists to advocate for overlooked seagrass protection, while hoteliers frame beach management as conservation. On North Sea mudflats, restoration biologists and oyster farmers debate which bivalve – ‘native’ Ostrea or ‘alien’ Crassostrea – merits protection, revealing politics embedded in ecological classifications. Along Maine's coast, lobster fishers enact ambiguous entanglements of care and capture, where fishing simultaneously supports livelihoods and embodies stewardship.</p><p>This composition resists any singular, sentimental reading of care. Some practices appear intimate and sustaining; others remain precarious, profit-driven, or compromised. Yet all are relational, reminding us that oceans are not passive backdrops but living co-productions.</p><p>The authors argue for an expanded ethical framework valuing diverse care practices – showing how conservation efforts often embed in broader socio-economic relationships rather than existing as purely altruistic acts. The challenge lies in weaving these practices into networks capable of sustaining both human and more-than-human communities.</p><p>Back cover caption, volume 41 issue 3</p><p>Where Land Spills into Sea</p><p>The cascade dominating this image invites us to follow water's journey from inland to sea – a visual metaphor distilling our special issue's core argument: what happens on land never remains confined to land. Heather Swanson's guest editorial traces how excess nitrogen from Baltic grain fields resurfaces downstream as hypoxic ‘dead zones’, depriving fish of oxygen and fishers of a livelihood. A shift in scale reveals the same pattern in synthetic microfibres shed from our clothing, now the ocean's largest source of primary microplastics. These converging currents represent not pristine nature but a global circulatory system engineered through our agricultural practices, consumption patterns and policy choices made far from shorelines.</p><p>Anthropology enters this flow by reframing ocean harm beyond the narrative of distant victimhood. The contributions here illuminate the dense social relations binding seabirds to agricultural subsidies, jellyfish to wastewater enginee","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"i-ii"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.12885","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144185893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The power of turtles: Entangled care in Akumal Bay, Mexico","authors":"Laura Otto","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.12961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12961","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>Sea turtles play a significant role in the ecosystem in Akumal Bay, Mexico. Often seen as charismatic, they play an integral part in balancing the preservation of the local ecology and maintaining the town's tourism economy. Tensions between conservation and commercialization are prevalent in Akumal. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the region, this article argues that the emotional appeal of turtles serves as a powerful tool for both biologists and the tourism industry, emphasizing that caring for these creatures is not simply an altruistic endeavour but an approach that helps to promote ecological integrity and stabilize economic interests. One example highlights how marine biologists leverage sea turtles' popularity to advocate for turtle and seagrass protection. The second example focuses on the tension between maintaining clean, algae-free beaches for tourists and preserving the natural environment for turtles. Here, hoteliers conveniently use ‘caring for turtles’ as an explanation for why their beaches are not pristine.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"23-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.12961","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144186039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nursing crabs and the biopolitics of care","authors":"Xuefei Shi","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.12958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12958","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the biopolitics of care within Madagascar's live mangrove crab trade. It reveals how care operates as a governance mechanism beyond ethical or affective practice. Care in this context is both technoscientific and embodied, shaped by regulations, market demands and labour hierarchies. I argue that the care provided to crabs – whether through nursing facilities, cold-chain logistics or the attentive handling by female traders – serves to sustain life and optimize vitality for economic purposes. This tension highlights the crucial yet often overlooked political dynamics of care in sustaining the global live seafood commodity chain. By recognizing the diverse forms of care within the seafood industry, the article also uncovers the socio-economic inequalities and ecological precarity embedded in these asymmetrical care practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"19-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144186038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caring and killing: A human jellyfish story","authors":"Rasmus Rodineliussen","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.12962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12962","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>The article centres on the idea of care in human attempts to remove microplastics from the water with the help of jellyfish bodies, asking: who is cared for, and who bears the cost for this care? It has recently come to light that jellyfish bodies have properties that can be utilized by humans to catch microplastics. This has led to an initiative to create filters for wastewater treatment plants that will use jellyfish bodies to catch microplastics from wastewater to mitigate the effects of human pollution. However, in the process of becoming products for various human uses (filters for wastewater plants, nutrients for agriculture, and even food), the jellyfish are killed. Humans thus seek to provide care for the underwater world by removing plastics, but to do so, they are using the bodies of jellyfish themselves.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"11-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.12962","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144186033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caring for ocean creatures","authors":"Paula Uimonen, Rasmus Rodineliussen","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.12966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12966","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>This introduction frames a special issue exploring human-ocean creature relationships through the lens of care. The authors examine how care practices for marine species manifest across different contexts—from commercial fishing and aquaculture to conservation efforts – while highlighting these relationships’ complex, often contradictory nature. Drawing on anthropology of the ocean, political ecology, and multispecies studies, the collection investigates who cares for ocean creatures, how care is practiced, and the politics that shape these interactions. The authors acknowledge the tension between exploitation and protection, profit motives and environmental concerns, noting that care for particular species often occurs at the expense of others. By centring ocean creatures as ethnographic subjects, the collection contributes to growing anthropological interest in environmental justice and multispecies relations while advocating for more holistic approaches to marine environments in the Anthropocene.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.12966","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144186030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caring for Pacific salmon: Reconsidering salmon-human relationships","authors":"Sarah Isabell Mund","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.12963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12963","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>Caring for Pacific salmon – one of the most iconic creatures of the North American West Coast – is not a straightforward task but is based on diverse understandings and relationships between salmon, people and the more-than-human environment. Local small-scale interactions, in particular, shape individual motivations to care for these fish and understand how best to do this. This article emerges from a collaborative research project with the Heiltsuk Nation, whose territory is located on the Central Coast of British Columbia (BC), Canada. Through ethnographic engagement with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents and visitors of this area, this article illustrates that close interactions are at the core of why and how people care for salmon. Drawing on theoretical engagements with the concept, care is understood not as an innocent notion but as a complicated set of practices that can also involve killing salmon. These salmon-human interactions transcend unidirectional dominance, evolving into reciprocal exchanges that distribute responsibility across species boundaries.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"4-6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.12963","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144186031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Care in capture: Ambiguous care for lobsters and whales","authors":"Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.12960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12960","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lobster fishers in Maine on the northeast coast of the US find themselves in an awkward form of vulnerability. While the ocean creatures that their livelihoods so heavily rely on fare reasonably well as a population, lobster fishers have come to see themselves as an endangered species. Concerned with the alleged lethal damage fishing gear does to the endangered North Atlantic right whales, environmental organizations have advocated for restrictions on the use of fishing technologies like ropes and traps in ways that could be detrimental to the state's otherwise thriving lobster fishing industry. Easily misread as a conflict between extractive capture on the one hand and multispecies care on the other, this article shows that a closer examination of the fishing practices of these communities reveals that practices of capture and practices of care intersect and overlap in often ambiguous ways.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"26-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144186040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taking care of sea cucumbers: Artisanal aquaculture in the Blue Economy","authors":"Paula Uimonen","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.12959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12959","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>Farming sea cucumbers for export to China is an emerging form of artisanal aquaculture on the Swahili coast in Tanzania. The government's Blue Economy development paradigm encourages this approach, promising a ‘triple win’ of increased income in fishing communities, marine conservation and economic growth. Sea cucumber farming is thus discursively framed in terms of caring for both humans and the environment. But how do such ideals of care translate into practice? What are the limitations of caring for the political ecology of the blue economy? This article investigates sea cucumber farming as a practice of care and domestication in amphibious Swahili ocean worlds. It argues that contrary to the rhetoric of the Blue Economy, farming sea cucumbers has yet to improve local livelihoods, while it risks the very lives of these ocean creatures. The article shows the importance of paying closer attention to human engagements with various ocean creatures to appreciate the economic and ecological impact of human-ocean relationships in the global context of blue capitalism.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"7-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.12959","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144186032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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