Urban Sea

Abstract
What is the urban sea made of? And how might those working in the urban sea provide new modes and idioms for living in cities with sea level rise? This project provincializes the grounds of urban planning and urban theory by attending to the ways in which fishers living in the city in the sea are already organizing their livelihoods and social worlds with anthropogenic climate change and coastal pollution. Their changing practices may reveal new ways to live in cities in the sea in the future.

Project Note
I am currently writing a book that focuses on the work of fishers, scientists and city planners as they work to understand, inhabit and settle the turbid relationships of the city in the sea. Most of the ethnographic research of Urban Sea was gathered between June 2018 and August 2019. Owing to a series of transportation infrastructure projects being staged in the sea during this time, the relationships between urban government, citizen scientists, fishers, environmental activists, and concerned citizens were (and continue to be) especially fraught.