Underwater Worlds: An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life

Acknowledgments
Praise for Underwater Worlds
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Diving In
	Making the Underwater World Visible: Aim and Research Questions
	Situating the Study: Stockholm, the Baltic Sea, and Lake Mälaren
	Underwater Ethnography: Methodological Strategies
	Engaging with Trash Scuba Divers
	Fieldworking with Scientists
	Visual Methods
	Aquabiopolitics: Management of Waste and Marine Life in a Water Assemblage
	Book Outline
		Part I: The Scientists
		Part II: The Trash Divers
		Chapter 9: Ending
	References
Part I: The Scientists
	Chapter 2: Sediment Stories
		Meeting the Scientists
		A Brief Outline and Theoretical Note
		Cleaning the Cores: Ugh … Rotten Eggs!
		Sampling with Cores
		Core Slicing
		Be Aware of the Oxygen!
		Daily Routine, Samples Out of the Sea, and What Then?
		Utrecht
		Meeting the Samples
		Experiments in the Laboratory
		Nijmegen
		Forcing a Human Reaction?
		References
	Chapter 3: Technologically Sensing the Underwater World
		The R/V Electra af Askö
		Treasure Hunting
		CTD: Knowing the Water
		Painting the Seafloor
		The Relational Affordances of Electra
		Knowledge for the Future
		Electra and Her Crew
		A Window, but No Cannon
		References
	Chapter 4: Slow Violence and the Plastisphere
		Plastics and the Plastisphere
		SIWI World Water Week: And the Source-To-Sea Approach
		How Plastics Leak Through the Cleaning of Water After Human Usage in Stockholm
		Plastics Slow Violence: A Theoretical Detour
		Plastics and Jellyfish
			Plastics
			Jellyfish
		Why a Jellyfish Filter?
		Jellyfish, Care, and Aquabiopolitics
		References
	Chapter 5: Interlude: Connecting the Parts
		References
Part II: The Trash Divers
	Chapter 6: No One’s Water: Trash Scuba Diving in Stockholm
		The Origin of Rena Mälaren
		The Members
		Trash Scuba Divers
		Is a Scuba Diver a Cyborg?
		Rope Pullers
		Expanding
		The Work of Financing Trash Diving
		Covid-19: Volunteers Assemble
		Organizational Structure
		More Waste Up, More!
		Toxic Water and Bottoms?
		Knowledge, Memory, and Responsibility as Aquabiopolitical Relations
		Threshold of Pollution
		References
	Chapter 7: Looking into the Underwater World: An Attempt to Make What Is Below the Surface Visible from Above
		Underwater Demonstration Against Ongoing Pollution of Drinking Water in Stockholm
		Media as a Venue for Outreach
		How and What to Build
		Waste Installations
		Scientists and Activists Joining Forces
		Creating New Relations
		Images as Windows to the Underwater World?
		Being Visible Is Being Influential
		Reaching the Young
		Is It Possible to Change One’s Perspective on Water from Above to Below the Surface?
		References
	Chapter 8: Trash Diving: A Global Comparison—An Expanding Rena Mälaren and Trash Divers in Brazil and Thailand
		Rena Mälaren: Expanding
		Västerås: Collaborating with the Fire Department
		Gothenburg
		To Make That Environmental Ethic Stick
		Environmental Activism Compared
		Project AWARE in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro and Arraial do Cabo
		Project AWARE in Thailand: Koh Samui
		Trash Hero Koh Samui
		What Can Be Learned from This Comparison?
			Visibility on Social Media
			Visibility and Temperature in Water
			Different Waters?
		References
	Chapter 9: Ending
		How Can One Show the Human Harm Caused to the Baltic Sea and Lake Mälaren?
		What Is the Role of Technology in Learning About the Marine Environment?
		In What Ways Can the Practices of Marine Scientists and Environmental Activists Impact Multispecies Care and Prevent the Destruction of Aquatic Worlds?
		Ending with an Example and an Update
		To Sum Up
		Reference
Appendix A: Inventory—What Can Be Found on the Bottoms Around Stockholm
Index