@incollection{Beck2019c,

title = {The Ocean as Thingspace. From the Ocean as ‘Master of Disappearance’ to the ‘Friendly Floatees’ and a new ocean cosmology},

author = {Petra Beck},

editor = {Richard Ek and Nils Johannson

},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-05-01},

booktitle = {Opening the Bin: Perspectives on Waste from the Social Sciences and the Humanities},

publisher = {Cambridge Scholars Publishing},

address = {Newcawstle upon Tyne},

abstract = {In this paper I will explore the oceans as Thingspaces, and analyze the current Plastic Pollution of oceans within the long history of resurfacing objects from the sea. From the specific history of oceans as “Places of Away” and “Places of No return” since the antiquity, where the ocean was valued for its property to “keep things under”, as “master of disappearance” (Lindenlauf 2003), and a resurfacing object was regarded as a divine sign, like in the myth of Polycrates, to a more recent event of recurring objects: The “Friendly Floatees”. Infamous 30 000 floating rubber ducks, that not only helped to map the ocean currents, but became icons for the plastic pollution of oceans themselves.	

For that purpose, I will work with a discourse analytical perspective on the narratives, which have arisen around the event of the “Friendly Floatees”, including two children's books and a Disney Channel Movie. The changing narratives and ontologies around the “Friendly Floatees” can be used to describe the shift in human-ocean-relations within the growing oceanic Plastic Pollution. 

},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{Beck2019b,

title = {Capitalisme sentimental},

author = {Petra Beck},

editor = {Martina Nußbaumer and Peter Stuiber/Museum Wien



},

url = {https://www.wienmuseum.at/de/ausstellungen/vorschau/ansicht/wo-dinge-wohnen-das-phaenomen-selfstorage.html},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Wo Dinge wohnen. Das Phänomen Selfstorage},

publisher = {Park Books},

address = {Zürich},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{Beck2019,

title = {Orte der Diskretion},

author = {Petra Beck},

editor = {Martina Nußbaumer and Peter Stuiber/Museum Wien



},

url = {https://www.wienmuseum.at/de/ausstellungen/vorschau/ansicht/wo-dinge-wohnen-das-phaenomen-selfstorage.html},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Wo Dinge wohnen. Das Phänomen Selfstorage},

publisher = {Park Books},

address = {Zürich},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{Beck2016c,

title = {Restopia – Self-Storage as Urban Practice. »Like a hotel – but for things«},

author = {Petra Beck},

editor = {Christiane Lewe and Tim Othold and Nicolas Oxen



},

url = {https://discardstudies.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mucc88ll.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {Müll. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das Übrig-Gebliebene},

publisher = {Transcript},

address = {Bielefeld},

abstract = {This article explores human-thing-relations and what it means to turn something into »waste« through an ethnography of Self-Storage facilities. Self-Storage entrepreneurs rent out storage rooms for private use in huge buildings. These »Houses for things« might be the logical continuation of consumer society and are related to all other »Thing-spaces« (»Res-Topias«). Self-Storage houses turn out to be an extremely rewarding space for researching material culture, because the things that have arrived in Self-Storage spaces have undergone an intensive process: Self-Storage is based on negotiations, with one’s own self and with others, it demands a reflexive handling of things and their use. The practice of Self-Storage generates a »Self of Self-Storage«, which answered itself questions regarding its past, present, and future. A literary technique from the 18th century –the so called »Zimmerreise« (»Room travel«) – is applied here for the first time as an ethnographic method to »make things talk«.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{Beck2010d,

title = {Palastmusik. Einheit und Teilung im Stadtbild Berlins},

author = {Petra Beck},

editor = {Robert Grünbaum},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-09-01},

booktitle = {Deutsche Einheit. Ein Überblick 1945 bis heute},

pages = {17-20},

publisher = {Metropolverlag},

address = {Berlin},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}