Sea-Ing through Bodies, Health, and Sustainability

Ocean sustainability is highlighted in manifestations around the world. Currently, the perception is growing that the pollution of the ocean affects the environment - the waves of plastic invading the beaches or the spread of face masks in the ocean, despite their recent introduction with the disease COVID-19. The crescent extrativism over the ocean resources has revealed a physical violence into nature. The ocean, as one of humanity' last frontiers, has been extensively re-created since enormous conjectures of the modern floating cities, as a channel of survive where the bodies in the sand reveal the symbolic violence in it. In the face of present economic view of infinite growth, which feeds cultural and political shocks, health crisis, and the movement of relocation of bodies, deep and diversified environmental changes in coastal zones have been awakened. In that sense, the discourse about landscape – from the ancestral conception of seascape re-signified by Tim Ingold, turn a phenomenological tool of addressing global oceanic problems of local coastal symptoms. The ocean’s emergence as a formidable actor in the present and future of the Earth, brings the need to re-signify scientific research, seeking in local-traditional knowledge complements for a technical-scientific praxis with belonging and respect for all lives and knowledge. Under a path for coastal ocean justice, this session will be the start point in a dialogical movement, evoking emotional and bio-cultural memories of the human bodies to co-construct the pluriverse of the oceanic worlds and open a discussion about how ocean we are?