SEA-TIME : AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE

By:

SAMPSON, HELEN

Publication details: ROUTLEDGE PUBLICATIONS 2024 OXONEdition: 1STDescription: X+226 P. PaperbackISBN:

978-1032576107

Subject(s):

NOVELS FICTIONS BIOGRAPHIES

DDC classification:

623.8092 SAM

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Contents:

SEA-TIME MERCHANT CARGO VESSELS SAILORS SEAFARERS LIFE SHIPPING Joining Beluga 2. Sea craft 3. Full steam ahead 4. Crashing and banging in port 5. Stopping and starting: from the Bosporus to the Black Sea 6. Heading for home: shipboard reflections 7. The ebb and flow of time 8. Gender matters: the challenges of being female on board 9. How ships lost their ‘rock and roll’! 10. Spartan standards and sacrifice: a life on floating steel Conclusions, signing off and final thoughts

Summary: This book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard fieldwork in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time. Change over time and the experience of time on board are organising themes throughout the text. They are contextualised with accounts of transformation in the regulation of the shipping industry and technological innovation. The book begins with a unique account of a voyage on a container ship. In this, the author details both the research process and the daily activities and shared thoughts of the seafarers who are on board. The narrative is further enhanced with illustrative examples taken from other voyages to illustrate continuities and change over time. The book will be of value to individuals, scholars, and researchers interested in ethnography of all kinds. Sociologists, anthropologists, maritime studies students, seafarers, ship operators and policy makers will find the text engaging and revealing. It provides a vivid account that will appeal to academics interested in the study of work, workplace change and time. It is accessibly written and will be enjoyed by readers interested in the contemporary shipping industry, and the life and work of seafarers.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Tolani Maritime Institute	TEXT	623.8092 SAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		M14722

STERLING BOOK HOUSE INV/544 2024-05-04

SEA-TIME
MERCHANT CARGO VESSELS
SAILORS
SEAFARERS LIFE
SHIPPING
Joining Beluga

2. Sea craft

3. Full steam ahead

4. Crashing and banging in port

5. Stopping and starting: from the Bosporus to the Black Sea

6. Heading for home: shipboard reflections

7. The ebb and flow of time

8. Gender matters: the challenges of being female on board

9. How ships lost their ‘rock and roll’!

10. Spartan standards and sacrifice: a life on floating steel

Conclusions, signing off and final thoughts

This book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard fieldwork in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time. Change over time and the experience of time on board are organising themes throughout the text. They are contextualised with accounts of transformation in the regulation of the shipping industry and technological innovation. The book begins with a unique account of a voyage on a container ship. In this, the author details both the research process and the daily activities and shared thoughts of the seafarers who are on board. The narrative is further enhanced with illustrative examples taken from other voyages to illustrate continuities and change over time. The book will be of value to individuals, scholars, and researchers interested in ethnography of all kinds. Sociologists, anthropologists, maritime studies students, seafarers, ship operators and policy makers will find the text engaging and revealing. It provides a vivid account that will appeal to academics interested in the study of work, workplace change and time. It is accessibly written and will be enjoyed by readers interested in the contemporary shipping industry, and the life and work of seafarers.

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