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Sampson, Helen

 
9781032576060: Sea-Time: An Ethnographic Adventure (Routledge Advances in Ethnography)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1032576065 ISBN 13: 9781032576060
Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

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.

2025 winner of Maritime Foundation 'Best Maritime Book Award'.

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About the Author

Helen Sampson is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She has been the Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre for over 20 years. In 2014, she won the BBC/BSA ethnography prize for her book International Seafarers and Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century.

From the Back Cover

The book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard field work in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032576065
ISBN 13 
9781032576060
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240