Overview

On a global scale, more than 40 million people make their living working directly at sea as fishers, seafarers, in aquaculture or seabed-mining, or related occupations such as dockworkers, shipbuilding, logistics, maritime administration, secondary branches of shipping, marine tourism and other maritime professions. The study of maritime labour and occupations is still under-represented in the social sciences and humanities. With the present volume, we attempt to fill this gap by representing recent research on maritime professions from a sociological perspective drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and subject matters.

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Author:   Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś ,  Frank Sowa ,  Marie Grasmeier
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   02
Weight:   0.574kg
ISBN:  

9789004518858

ISBN 10:   9004518851
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   16 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Introduction: Maritime Professions as a Field of Social Research  Marie C. Grasmeier, Agnieszka Kolodziej-Durnas and Frank Sowa Part 1: Macro-Sociological and Organizational Approaches 1 Seafarers and Dockworkers: Implications for Industrial Sociology  Shaun Ruggunan 2 “Making a Ship”: Maritime Labour Regime(s) and Alienation in Norwegian Offshore Production  Camilla Mevik 3 Boundary-work, Occupational Identities and Class-experiences of Global Seafarers  Marie C. Grasmeier and Linda Beck Part 2: Gender Issues 4 The Role of Discursive Contexts in Constructing the Identity of Women at Sea: Towards Informal Dimensions of Maritime Adult Education  Iwona Królikowska and Astrid Meczkowska-Christiansen 5 Strategies and Struggle of Women Fishers for the Rescue and Conservation of a Coastal Lagoon System: “Mujeres Pescadoras del Manglar”  Nuria Jimenez Garcia 6 The Fishing Profession in Quebec: Structure, Origins and Development of a “Typically Male” Sector  Marco Alberio Part 3: Micro-Sociological Approaches 7 “Team Play”: Seafarers’ Strategies for Coping with Job Demands of Short Sea Cargo Shipping Lines  Birgit Pauksztat 8 The Role of Personality Traits, Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction in the Explanation of Seafarers’ Well-being  Ana Sliškovic 9 A Study on the Sense of Relative Deprivation of Elderly Fishers from the Perspective of Ocean Sociology: The Example of Island S and G in Zhoushan City, China  Wen Zhang and Ya Wen 10 Families of Seamen in the Period of Political Changes and Today – Homelessness Issues  Roland Dobrzeniecki-Lukasiewicz Index

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Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś (1973), professor at the University of Szczecin, Poland. She has published articles on maritime professions (e.g. in European Societies) and introduced Research Stream in Maritime Sociology to European Sociological Association conferences. Frank Sowa, Ph.D. (1974), professor at University of Applied Sciences Georg Simon Ohm, Germany. He has worked on maritime issues, e.g. identity politics of the Greenlandic Inuit and whaling culture in Japan. He organized several research streams and sessions in Maritime Sociology. Marie C. Grasmeier (1979) studied nautical science, social anthropology and gender studies in Bremen, Germany. She wrote her PhD-thesis on the occupational culture and occupational identities of seafarers in the global merchant fleet. She currently works in the civilian maritime search-and-rescue fleet as a nautical expert and teaches ethnographic methods at the University of Bremen.

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