Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage

Rosabelle (Rose) Boswell is an anthropologist and poet. She is also an NRF-DSI South African Research Chair of Ocean Cultures and Heritage. She is based at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.David O’Kane is a graduate of the National University of Ireland and holds a doctorate from Queen’s University Belfast. He is an associate of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.Jeremy Hills is a Professor at USP and a Chartered Environmentalist with over 20 years of experience of professional research and consultancy in coastal and marine environments.

• 1. Introduction: Blue Heritage, Human Development and the Climate Crisis.- Part 1: Humans and Humanities in Ocean Heritage.- 2. The Evolutionary Roots of Blue Heritage.- 3. Islands and the Sea.- 4. Oceanic humanities for Blue Heritage.- 5. World and Marine Heritages.- Part 2: Historical, Cultural and Literary Perspectives.- 6. Jeremy Hills Greek Study 1.- 7. Tales of Ocean, Migration And Memory in Ancestral Homespaces In Goa.- 8. Salt, Boats and Customs: Maritime Princely States in Western India, 1910-1932.- 9. Navigating Environment, History and Archaeology in Portsmouth Island, USA.- 10. Multi-spirited Waters in Lynton Burger’s She Down There.- 11. Women Rising, Women Diving in Vanuatu and Australia.- 12. Speaking with The Sea: Divination and Identity in South Africa.- Part 3: Environmental, Legal and Political Realities.- 13. Selo! Oral Accounts of Seychelles’ Maritime Culture.- 14. Waking up to Wakashio: Marine and Human Disaster in Mauritius.- 15. Blue heritage among Fishermen of Mafia Island, Tanzania.- 16. Blue Heritage in the Blue Pacific.- 17. Policies, Epistemologies in inclusive oceans management in Sierra Leone.- 18. Navigating a Sea of Laws: Small-scale fishing communities and Customary Rights in Ghana and South Africa.- 19. Narratives of Non-compliance in ‘Tuesday non-fishing day’ in Ghana.- 20. Lalela uLwandle: an experiment in plural governance discussions         .- 21. ‘Other’ Social Consequences of Marine Protection in Tsitsikamma, South Africa.- 22. Sustaining the Underwater Cultural Heritage.- 23. Underwater Cultural Heritage, Poverty and Corruption in Mozambique.