Oceans as Archives

The Oceans as Archives series contributes to the growing field of critical ocean studies, while intervening in the erasures and occlusions performed in scripting the field as a new critical terrain of inquiry. The series brought together interdisciplinary scholars, poets, artists, and activists to share and discuss new work that centers the ocean as a source of knowledge and a method for thinking and writing about the historical and persistent violence of settler colonialism and capitalism, and anti-colonial resistance. The series provides a space for sharing ideas and theories anchored in the longstanding critical traditions of Black (diaspora) studies, Pacific Islander studies, Critical Indigenous studies, Caribbean philosophy, postcolonial theory, and decolonial and anticolonial critique. 

The first part of the series took place online and was hosted at the University of British Columbia in Spring 2021. The second part of the series was held at the University of Amsterdam in 2022. The series will also become an edited collection.

The series was co-organized with Renisa Mawani and Kristie Patricia Flannery

For more details: www.oceansasarchives.org