H2020Индивидуална стипендия2019–2023

MaritimeImagination · Maritime Imagination: A Cultural Oceanography of The Netherlands

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2019-09-01 → 2023-03-01
Финансиране от ЕС: 239 818 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Нидерландската връзка с морето се анализира чрез разглеждане на историите за морски успехи и скритите колониални и расови аспекти на разширението на империята. Това помага за по-доброто разбиране на влиянието на океана върху културата, политиката и обществото от 1600 г. до днес.

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Maritime Imagination: A Cultural Oceanography of The Netherlands

Contemporary and historical narrations of the Dutch relationship to the sea involve tales of maritime heroism and prowess. At the same time, the colonial-racial underpinnings of Dutch expansion overseas remain invisible. Conventional land-based accounts of Dutch empire and colonialism simply mention the ocean in passing, often as a route between colony and metropole. In Maritime Imagination, I develop an oceanic framework for the study of Dutch imperialism and its aftermath. Following a turn to the ocean in recent humanities and social science research, I ask what a turn to the ocean might teach us about Dutch imperial imaginaries, cultures, and politics. Tracing the movements of Dutch ships and stories of Dutch maritime prowess across oceans, this project strengthens the conceptual and theoretical framework of Ocean, Colonial and Globalization Studies by highlighting the formative role of Dutch maritime imagination and its impact in shaping colonial, imperial, racial, gendered, and capitalist discourses. The aim is to improve our understanding of the political, socio-economic and cultural role of the ocean in the transportation of cultures, people, goods, and legal regimes across Dutch empire. It maps and analyzes the shifting legal, cultural, socio-economic and political discourses of the Dutch maritime world (1600 - present) to better understand its impact on state and empire formation. Constructing a cultural oceanography of Dutch empire, the project shifts the classic focus on land to the importance of the sea. This shift to the ocean expands pressing public debates in The Netherlands, Europe and elsewhere on revisiting, revising, researching, and representing colonial histories in a globalized present. By collaborating with the cultural and academic sector, I develop new ways of communicating academic research to a broader audience through public events and interdisciplinary curriculum development. With this project, I have shown the importance of turning to the ocean as a framework and methodology for the study of Dutch imperialism and its aftermath. In conclusion, Dutch maritime imagination has deeply impacted European imperialist and legal thought. From racialised discourses of trade and navigation to contemporary imaginaries of climate catastrophe and rising sea levels, Dutch maritime imagination continues to impact how we address contemporary societal and environmental challenges.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

In 1609, Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius, commissioned by the VOC, published Mare Liberum. The book argued for a juridical distinction between land-based sovereignties and the ""free sea,"" heralding a new maritime imagination and international legal order that still persists today. Grotius is not just an exemplary figure for early deliberations on maritime worlds, his work carries particular resonance for Dutch articulations of empire and colonialism rooted in oceanic spaces that have shaped its historical and contemporary position in a global context. Although historians agree that The Netherlands was more interested in commercial maritime trade than European settlement, accounts of Dutch empire and colonialism remain land-based, simply mentioning the ocean as a route between colony and metropole. Maritime Imagination addresses this oversight by developing a cultural oceanography of the Dutch maritime imagination, generating an innovative multi-era and interdisciplinary approach to the study of maritime worlds. Applying an oceanic perspective, I aim to show how a maritime frame -rather than a land-based frame- engenders new ways of theorizing the formation of Dutch empire and colonialism and its impact on the present. Starting from an oceanic framework that crosses existing analytic divides between culture, society, law, economy, and environment, I aim to contribute to the emerging interdisciplinary field of Oceanic Studies. Maritime Imagination researches four interrelated ocean temporalities (17th cent. - present), in which I position Dutch ship voyages as laboratories of colonialism and empire. Visions of the ocean, deeds performed at sea, how they are imagined and their impact are what I call maritime imagination, which can only be illuminated by foregrounding the ocean as a central locus that engenders, shapes and transforms world views, culture, self/other definitions, laws, economy, and ecologies of extraction and sustainability -i.e. through a cultural oceanography.""

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM · AmsterdamКоординаторНидерландия
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA · VANCOUVERКанада