The Drowned - Elements of Loss and Repair

This book concerns the elemental geographies and lives and deaths of the drowned to confront enduring forms of oppression. Elaine Stratford documents with penetrating compassion and acumen how human and more-than-human bodies lose personhood in acts of violence, exploitation, marginalisation, cultural imperialism, and powerlessness. This work is both a scholarly and deeply personal call to rethink how we live with, remember, and honour the drowned. It offers profound insights to all those interested in human geography and allied disciplines.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Abandoned Drowned Infants.- 3. Shamed Swimming Witches.- 4. Jettisoned Slaves Overboard.- 5. Displaced Removing the Colonized.- 6. Dislocated Perilous Movements.- 7. Inundated Planet Water.- 8. Epilogue.

About the author

Elaine Stratford
is Professor of Human Geography and Planning at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research explores how people flourish and languish in place and on the move.

Summary

This book concerns the elemental geographies and lives and deaths of the drowned to confront enduring forms of oppression. Elaine Stratford documents with penetrating compassion and acumen how human and more-than-human bodies lose personhood in acts of violence, exploitation, marginalisation, cultural imperialism, and powerlessness. This work is both a scholarly and deeply personal call to rethink how we live with, remember, and honour the drowned. It offers profound insights to all those interested in human geography and allied disciplines.

Product details

• Authors: Elaine Stratford
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2025
• EAN: 9789819688562
• ISBN: 978-981-9688-56-2
• No. of pages: 326
• Illustrations: XIX, 326 p. 25 illus., 21 illus. in color.
• Series: Palgrave Series in Elemental Thinking
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Soziologie, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Geography, Politik und Staat, Sozialgeographie, Biopolitics, Social History, Geopolitics, Political Sociology, Abjection, Cultural Geography, Political Geography, Human Geography, Sociocultural Anthropology, Social and Cultural Geography, Politics and Human Rights, archives, drowning, Waterways, drowned