Sargassum in the Black Atlantic: Entanglement and the abyss in Bearden, Walcott, and Philip

Pinnix, Aaron

doi:10.1080/14788810.2018.1510700

Cited by 9 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 53 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Furthermore, the materiality of the ocean confounds modernist distinctions between human, nature, and environment. Consider the case of sargassum, an entangling (and entangled) substance that is simultaneously an outlier in the (liquid) oceanic environment, a constitutive component of the oceanic environment, a product of that environment, and a catchment for pollutants from beyond the oceanic environment (Pinnix, 2019). As Leslie Acton and colleagues have elaborated on in this journal, sargassum defies the modernist impulse to border (Acton et al, 2019).…”

Section: Oceans In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography

Steinberg

2022

Political Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Oceans In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography

Steinberg

2022

Political Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Oceanic Humanities for Blue Heritage

Hofmeyr,

Lavery

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Beneath the Waves: Feminisms in the Transmodern Era – Introduction

Pellicer‐Ortín

Martínez-Falquina

Arizti

2021

The European Legacy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The winds of change sweeping across our globalised world have inspired a wide range of studies, new research paradigms, and new concepts that seek to characterise their nature and effects, the challenges they pose alongside the potential opportunities they hold. One of the new concepts that captures the drift of the times is transmodernism, which emphasises the interconnectedness and fluidity of basic categories such as reality, identity, memory and culture. As the word suggests, transmodernism positions itself in a dynamic interpretive relationship with both modernism and postmodernism. For some transmodern theorists, including Enrique Dussel, Marc Luyckx Ghisi, Irena Ateljevic, Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen and José María Yebra-Pertusa, transmodernism is not merely a temporal term but signifies, more importantly, the liberating potential of a new way of being in the world. They argue that transmodernity signals multiple, interconnected global shifts-in consciousness, economics, politics, and human relations-that are characterised by a range of concerns, such as inclusivity, diversity, partnership, sustainability, human rights and ecology. These concerns, they hold, result from the deeper awareness of people of how "mutual interdependency grows" and how "the hierarchies between different cultures [have started to] dismantle." 1 The aim of this Special Issue, as its title indicates, is to examine some of these transmodern concerns in a variety of contemporary literary and artistic works, from several different yet related theoretical feminist perspectives. While the past few decades have been crucial for female empowerment, they have at the same time seen a backlash against feminist achievements. On the one hand, even a brief glance at the official statistics shows that women continue to be the main victims of domestic violence; that together with children they are disproportionately affected by armed conflicts; they lead the ranks of the poor and are especially vulnerable in times of economic recession, enforced migration, and the deleterious effects of climate change in various regions of the world. More recently, new restrictions have been imposed on women's reproductive rights in several western countries, rape culture has spread alongside the pornography industry, and the "angry white men" has emerged as a movement which promotes a demonised image of feminism. 2 Despite these anti-feminist phenomena, feminism has become a constant and growing force for change. A clear example of its strength was seen in the first International Women's Strike on March 8, 2017 (which took place in fifty countries around the world and called for the CONTACT Bárbara Arizti

show abstract

Sargassum in the Black Atlantic: Entanglement and the abyss in Bearden, Walcott, and Philip

Cited by 9 publications

References 53 publications

Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography

Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography

Oceanic Humanities for Blue Heritage

Beneath the Waves: Feminisms in the Transmodern Era – Introduction

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About