PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Killian Quigley is research fellow at ACU's Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Melbourne, Australia and honorary fellow at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, Australia, He is co-editor, with Margaret Cohen
This book's revelations will profoundly transform approaches to multispecies scholarship within the environmental humanities, cultural heritage studies, marine science, and beyond. * Ecozon@ * Reading Underwater Wreckage is a poignant and insightful entreaty to keep in mind that how we think and write, and conduct science, about wreckage is of paramount importance because wrecks are not things of the past. They are real things that impact real lives, then as now. -- Sarah Rich * Journal of Maritime Archaeology * Reading Underwater Wreckage is a book that does not operate at the surface; it is not an overview. Instead, The Encrusting Ocean introduces a dynamic methodology in oceanic interpretation that focuses on submerged artifacts. The book's encrusted theory unfolds as a valuable addition to the growing body of work in the blue humanities and new materialism. It is a book that inevitably will push the blue humanities to greater depths. -- Professor Sid Dobrin, University of Florida, USA This book is a remarkable confluence of material culture, environmental humanities, and literary studies – but at its heart is the work of the sea itself. Quigley invites us to sift through the de debris of the seafloor with new feelers, new eyes, new conceptual prosthetics. We are invited to rethink the sea as archive and artist, and to reconsider what sunken treasure augurs in a time of rapid cultural and environmental change. * Astrida Neimanis, University of British Columbia, Canada *
