Living with the sea: Making connections - a personal and professional Heimat (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

This presentation is an autobiographical account of my connection with the sea and the associated narratives that it holds. The sea is my Heimat – my homeland and I feel a personal sense of belonging to this place. The concept of somaesthetics is introduced as a way of exploring my embodied cognition of time with the sea. I consider how my earliest experiences of the sea has influenced my professional practice as a university lecturer, and as a consequence how seascapes have affected my students’ understanding of their own connection to the sea. I discuss the romanticised stories of the sea and explore how matters of social justice and oppression can be found just beneath the surface. Autobiography as my construction of reality here is what Bruner (1991: 8) describes as “hermeneutic composability”, that is the telling of my story and its comprehension as a story depends upon the human capacity to process knowledge in an interpretive way. Autobiography is to do with recovering a past...

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