Can the Baltic Sea die? An environmental imaginary of a dying sea

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dc.contributor.authorPeterson, Jesse D.en
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-21T12:04:51Z
dc.date.available2025-05-21T12:04:51Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-09
dc.description.abstractThis chapter seeks to illustrate how claims made about the Baltic Sea’s ecological conditions contribute to an environmental imaginary of a dying Baltic Sea. Adopting an onto-epistemological approach to environmental imaginary, this chapter explores cultural and scientific representations of the Baltic Sea and how they congeal into normative assumptions related to what this sea is, ought to be, and how to keep it that way. The chapter explores how the Baltic Sea gets framed as a stable, ‘natural’ categorization and how challenges to this categorization get framed as ‘unnatural’ and undesirable. The chapter exposes how a dying Baltic Sea predominantly rests upon selective attention to particular attributes of its water. Thus, a dying Baltic Sea is one Baltic Sea among many, and a dying Baltic Sea could die from changes to any of these other attributes. The chapter ends by discussing whom a living or dying Baltic Sea benefits and arguing for a political and artistic intervention into people’s onto-epistemological relationships with marine environments as an alternative to the simplistic binary in which marine pollution results from only human interference in ‘natural’ processes.en
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dc.identifier.citationPeterson, J. D. (2024) 'Can the Baltic Sea die? An environmental imaginary of a dying sea', in Peterson, J. D., Dekker, N. L. and Olson, P. R. (eds.) Death’s Social and Material Meaning Beyond the Human. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, pp. 54–68. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529230161.ch004en
dc.identifier.doi10.51952/9781529230161.ch004en
dc.identifier.endpage68en
dc.identifier.isbn9781529230161en
dc.identifier.isbn9781529230147en
dc.identifier.isbn9781529230147en
dc.identifier.isbn9781529230154en
dc.identifier.isbn9781529230161en
dc.identifier.startpage54en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17550
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBristol University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofDeath’s Social and Material Meaning Beyond the Humanen
dc.rights© 2024, the Author. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of a chapter published in Peterson, J. D., Dekker, N. L. and Olson, P. R. (eds.) Death’s Social and Material Meaning Beyond the Human. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529230161.ch004.en
dc.subjectBaltic Seaen
dc.subjectDying Baltic Seaen
dc.subjectEnvironmental imaginaryen
dc.subjectNaturalen
dc.subjectUnnaturalen
dc.subject~Geography - Book chapters~en
dc.titleCan the Baltic Sea die? An environmental imaginary of a dying seaen
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