Sea-Time - An Ethnographic Adventure

The book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard field work in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Joining Beluga
2. Sea craft
3. Full steam ahead
4. Crashing and banging in port
5. Stopping and starting: from the Bosporus to the Black Sea
6. Heading for home: shipboard reflections
7. The ebb and flow of time
8. Gender matters: the challenges of being female on board
9. How ships lost their ‘rock and roll’!
10. Spartan standards and sacrifice: a life on floating steel
Conclusions, signing off and final thoughts

About the author

Helen Sampson is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She has been the Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre for over 20 years. In 2014, she won the BBC/BSA ethnography prize for her book International Seafarers and Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century.

Summary

The book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard field work in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Sampson, Helen (Cardiff University Sampson, Sampson Helen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2024
• EAN: 9781032576107
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3257610-7
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, REFERENCE / Research, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Transport industries, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Research methods: general, Research methods / methodology