Whose Ocean? reading group

Every second Monday starting 29 April, 15:30–17:00 / Casco HQ (Lange Nieuwstraat 7, 3512 PA Utrecht)
(Thus on 29 April, 13 May, 27 May, 10 June (note: 18:30–20:00), 24 June)
RSVP via marianna@casco.art


This biweekly reading group adds inspiration and discussion to Whose Ocean?, a transdisciplinary ocean justice project organized with Utrecht University’s Pathways to Sustainability. Its overarching goal is to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to engage in collective reading, emphasizing the importance of building momentum with the Assembly approaching in nine months.

Each reading session, chaired by a different researcher involved in the project, focuses on a selected term or topic, contributing to the development of a glossary for the Whose Ocean? assembly. Through the input of the group, diverse knowledges are integrated in each session. As such, the sessions will not only assess ocean science, but combine it, for example, with poetry, legal studies, and gender studies. The session’s harvests as well as other project updates are starting to be updated on the are.na page.

The sessions are open to everyone. Please send an e-mail to marianna@casco.art to receive the reading materials; and if you are interested in or have other questions related to the Whose Ocean? project.

The dates are 9 April, 13 May, 27 May, 10 June, and 24 June (15:30–17:00 for each edition except for 10 June, which is held 18:30–20:00).


The readings for the first session are:

Keywords: archipelago, relation, opacity

Readings from Humanities: Excerpts from Poetics of Relation by Martinican cultural critic/poet Edouard Glissant. “Errantry, Exile” (p. 11-22); “The Relative and Chaos” (p. 133-140) [also about sciences, humanities and poetry]; “Distancing, Determining” (p. 141-157).

The readings for the second session are:

Keywords: extractivism, capitalism, modernity

Readings from Humanities: Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás: Capitalism and the Sea (2021). Chapter 1: Introduction: A Terraqueous Predicament (p. 1-25).

The readings for the third session are:

Keywords: reparations and the sea

Readings from Humanities: Ellen van Neerven, “Water”, Heat and Light, University of Queensland Press, (p. 69-123).

Readings from Natural / Social Sciences: Texts on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removals.

The readings for the third session are:

Keywords: fishing, regulations, and systemic change

Readings from prologue and chapter 4 from Jennifer Telesca’s book Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna (2020). For this special occasion, Jennifer Telesca will be with us in person! The book critically examines how ocean governance often fails to protect the lives of fishes, highlighting systemic challenges and calling for improved regulatory measures.

The readings for the final session are:

Keywords: extractivism, capitalism, modernity

Readings from Humanities:
Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás: Capitalism and the Sea (2021). Chapter 1: Introduction: A Terraqueous Predicament (p. 1-25).
Alice Te Punga Sommerville: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch as Metaphor

Photo: cover of the original Poetics of Relation book.

This activity is part of:

An assembly that explores how the ocean can be meaningfully represented on international and national platforms, including courts of law and diplomacy

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