Shores, Surfaces and Depths: Oceanic Cultures of Tourism and Leisure

This book examines the oceanic presence in life on Earth, and the ways that we engage with the oceanic worlds for play, pleasure, adventure and the pursuit of leisure and escape through tourism and travel.

Felicity Picken is a Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University. Her scholarship is concerned with the changing relations between humans and nature in the strange living out of the Anthropocene. She follows the emergence of the ’blue planet’ as a significant social actor by exploring how relations with oceanic environments evolve through pleasurable encounters including art, heritage, tourism, and leisure.

Emma Waterton is a Leverhulme International Professor at the University of York, where she directs the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre. Her interests include: heritage, memory and affect; anti-colonial politics; migrant heritage-making; and climate justice in the Anthropocene. She is an author of four monographs.