{"id":2356,"date":"2019-10-28T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnoserver.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/?page_id=2356"},"modified":"2024-11-19T21:03:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:03:11","slug":"pbeck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/people\/current-members\/pbeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Petra Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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I am a doctoral candidate, research associate at the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations and research associate at the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, where I co-organize the research axe “Dynamics and experiences of Globalization”.<\/p>\r\n

My research interests are Material Culture Studies, Visual anthropology, (Material) Memory Cultures, Cultures of Exchange, Networks (of things), Thingspaces and Human-Environment Relations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As a visual anthropologist I have been involved in several artistic projects in recent years. My current work is focused on human-thing relations in urban contexts, human-thing-Umwelten, and Thingspaces, like e. g. Selfstorage Facilities.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

Contact: petra.beck@hu-berlin.de<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Find me also at: restopia.info<\/a> | Centre Marc Bloch<\/a> | Academia<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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2020<\/h3>

Petra Beck<\/p>

The Ocean as Thingspace. From the Ocean as \u2018Master of Disappearance\u2019 to the \u2018Friendly Floatees\u2019 and a new ocean cosmology Book Section<\/span> <\/p>

In: <\/span>Richard Ek, Nils Johannson\r\n (Ed.): Opening the Bin: Perspectives on Waste from the Social Sciences and the Humanities, <\/span>Cambridge Scholars Publishing, <\/span>Newcawstle upon Tyne, <\/span>2020<\/span>.<\/p>

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\r\ndate = {2020-05-01},
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\r\nabstract = {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 \u201cPlaces of Away\u201d and \u201cPlaces of No return\u201d since the antiquity, where the ocean was valued for its property to \u201ckeep things under\u201d, as \u201cmaster of disappearance\u201d (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 \u201cFriendly Floatees\u201d. 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.\t
\r\nFor that purpose, I will work with a discourse analytical perspective on the narratives, which have arisen around the event of the \u201cFriendly Floatees\u201d, including two children's books and a Disney Channel Movie. The changing narratives and ontologies around the \u201cFriendly Floatees\u201d can be used to describe the shift in human-ocean-relations within the growing oceanic Plastic Pollution. 
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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 \u201cPlaces of Away\u201d and \u201cPlaces of No return\u201d since the antiquity, where the ocean was valued for its property to \u201ckeep things under\u201d, as \u201cmaster of disappearance\u201d (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 \u201cFriendly Floatees\u201d. 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.\t
\r\nFor that purpose, I will work with a discourse analytical perspective on the narratives, which have arisen around the event of the \u201cFriendly Floatees\u201d, including two children's books and a Disney Channel Movie. The changing narratives and ontologies around the \u201cFriendly Floatees\u201d can be used to describe the shift in human-ocean-relations within the growing oceanic Plastic Pollution. 
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Petra Beck, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Adina Dymczyk, Janine Hauer, Anna Heitger, D\u017eeneta Hod\u017ei\u0107, Ruzana Liburkina, Stefan Reinsch, Tim Seitz, Christine Schmid, Krystin Unverzagt<\/p>
Rezension zu: Groth, Stefan; Ritter, Christian (Hrsg.): Zusammen arbeiten. Praktiken der Koordination und Kooperation in kollaborativen Prozessen. Bielefeld  2019<\/a> Journal Article<\/span> <\/p>
In: <\/span>H-Soz-Kult, <\/span>2020<\/span>.<\/p>
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\r\nyear  = {2020},
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