Ocean literacies: Splashing around on the beach or venturing into the dark abyssal sea (original) (raw)
2022, book: Sustainable policies and practices in energy, environment and health research: Addressing cross-cutting issues Publisher: Springer
Decades ago, concerns were raised about "sustainability" undermining critical approaches to education. It has become the green discursive umbrella in a globalized capitalist economy, which promotes capital accumulation through its commitment to a free-market. This neoliberal "development" has deepened social inequities and power differential between North and South. Within ocean governance this framing of issues has enhanced social, gender and race inequalities, excluding fishers' and social scientists' knowledge. Crises arise from the way marine resource management understands and constructs the ocean. As the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development begins, apolitical sciences conflate education as knowledge transfer, and natural sciences dominate "Ocean Literacy". This chapter explores assumptions within research and education about knowledge, human/ocean relationships, and ocean-based human activities. Alternative discourses for critical pedagogy and cross-cutting place-conscious education arise from local stakeholders and long-term ethnographies with small-scale fishing communities.
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