Editorial – being in transit: ships and global incompatibilities

Dusinberre, Martin; Wenzlhuemer, Roland

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“…5 Therein, historians emphasised the need to consider 'transit', beyond the usual ocean-based narratives. 6 Rethinking the period between arrival and departure shows how passengers and crew, trapped by bureaucratic controls, experienced 'in-between states'. 7 Those whose maritime mobility was constrained by practices governing steam-age mobility faced 'uncertain or thwarted arrivals'.…”

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Undesirable merchant seamen in transit: Harold Shaw, the Antarctic and the asylum

Kain

2018

International Journal of Maritime History

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This article uses the experiences of ship’s fireman Harold Shaw to expose the confused early twentieth-century legal framework used to restrict the mobility of undesirable merchant seamen. Labelled invariably as a ‘nuisance’, a ‘malingerer’, ‘mentally-deficient’ and ‘epileptic’, Shaw was classed as a prohibited immigrant in New Zealand. Bureaucratic records are used to tell of his life ‘in transit’. His wanderlust took him from Manchester, England, to Tasmania, the Antarctic, New Zealand and back again. Initially hailed as an Antarctic hero alongside his fellows on the Aurora, one-half of Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, he was unceremoniously expelled from New Zealand. Shaw managed to enter the country again in less glamorous, but no less dramatic circumstances. Local authorities struggled to reconcile the complex legislation designed to protect the health of arriving seamen, but more so that of the public, to deal with Shaw’s liminal status.

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Undesirable merchant seamen in transit: Harold Shaw, the Antarctic and the asylum

Kain

2018

International Journal of Maritime History

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“…As noticed by Martin Dusinberre and Roland Wenzlhu¨mer writing about ships, 'they have so often been studied merely as objects that pass by or that connect one point to another'. 12 This reductio ad unum, which defines movements as neutral transits, focuses mainly on the technicality of the devices, and too often assesses travelling as an eventless period. We know too well how 'connections' are not neutral vessels of people and goods: 'They do not merely bring their endpoints in contact; they interject themselves as mediators and thereby gain a strong bearing on that which is connected'.…”

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Seeking a (new) ontology for transport history

Moraglio

2017

The Journal of Transport History

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mobility (a complex assemblage of movement, imaginings and experience) is not only an object of study but also an analytical lens, promoted by those who talk about a mobility turn in social theory and who have proposed a new mobility paradigm to reorient the ways in which we think about society. 5Such a new mobility paradigm encompasses 'new ways of theorising how people, objects, and ideas move around by looking at social phenomena through the lens of movement'.

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Introduction: Shipboard Literary Cultures and the Stain of the Sea

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Liebich

2021

Shipboard Literary Cultures

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The introduction to the edited volume outlines the topics covered by the essays that follow and places them within historical and academic contexts. Turning for examples to several literary and non-literary texts, most notably the 1820s diaries of Edward Beck and Richard Henry Dana, Jr.’s Two Years Before the Mast (1840), it considers the differences and the continuities that prevail in shipboard environments across time, while also discussing the ways in which the human experience of time itself is complicated by seafaring. Particular attention is paid to the role of literary practices in shaping the experience of seafaring—to how such practices construct and reshape shipboard hierarchies, and also to how they help seafarers come to terms with the shipboard environment and with the ocean itself. While thus shaping shipboard cultures, the introduction argues, literary practices are also themselves affected—or ‘stained’—by the ocean environment.

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Editorial – being in transit: ships and global incompatibilities

Cited by 33 publications

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Undesirable merchant seamen in transit: Harold Shaw, the Antarctic and the asylum

Undesirable merchant seamen in transit: Harold Shaw, the Antarctic and the asylum

Seeking a (new) ontology for transport history

Introduction: Shipboard Literary Cultures and the Stain of the Sea

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