Publications
Out Now: Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities
edited by Sukla Chatterjee, Joanna Chojnicka, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, and Kerstin Knopf
This book contributes to the study of oceans, seas, coastal waters, and rivers in the context of the Blue Humanities by approaching the topic of water from different epistemological, narratological, geographical, cultural, and disciplinary perspectives and connecting them.
The contributors from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, North America and the Pacific deal with the entanglements between oceans, coastal areas, rivers, humans, animals, plants, organisms, and landscapes in the fields of cultural history and cultural studies, critical race theory and postcolonial studies, marine and environmental studies, linguistics, literature, film and media studies.
Heidelberg University Press published the edited volume both as a hardcover (60 Euros) and as an open access e-book.
Chatterjee, Sukla, Joanna Chojnicka, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, and Kerstin Knopf, editors. Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Press, 2024, 471 pages. [purchase hardcover on Amazon here]
Muharram, Mohammed. Rev. of “Hydrofeminist Thinking with Oceans: Political and Scholarly Possibilities: Edited by Tamara Shefer, Vivienne Bozalek, and Nike Romano, London, Routledge, 2024, 214 Pp., ?38.99 (Paperback), ISBN 9781032408996; ?145.00 (Hardcover), ISBN 9781032408972.” Social & Cultural Geography, 2025, 1-2. doi:10.1080/14649365.2025.2482301.
Schaffeld, Norbert. “A Fictionalized Representation of Scientific Counter-Discourse: Jo Lendle’s Historical Science Novel Alles Land (2011).” The German Quarterly, volume 92, issue 1, 2019, pages 35-50. DOI.
Auguscik, Anna. “‘Our Doing and Undoing’: Expeditionary Encounters and the Complex Mutuality of Cultural and Narrative Limits in Lily King’s Euphoria.” Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Anton Kirchhofer and Karsten Levihn-Kutzler. Heidelberg University Publishing, 2025, pages 183-2025.
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina et al. “Knowing the Ocean: Epistemic Inequalities in Patterns of Science Collaboration.” Ocean Governance. Knowledge Systems, Policy Foundations and Thematic Analyses, edited by Stefan Partelow, Maria Hadjimichael, and Anna-Katharina Hornidge. MARE Publication Series. Springer, 2023, pages 25-45. DOI.
Knopf, Kerstin, Sukla Chatterjee, Joanna Chojnicka, Anna-Katharina Hornidge. “Introduction - Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities.” Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities, edited by Sukla Chatterjee, Joanna Chojnicka, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, and Kerstin Knopf. Heidelberg University Press, 2023, pages 1-19. DOI.
Knopf, Kerstin. “Postcolonial Sea Fiction: Salt Water and Marine Knowledges in Fred D’Aguiar, Dionne Brand, and Kiana Davenport.” Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities, edited by Sukla Chatterjee, Joanna Chojnicka, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, and Kerstin Knopf. Heidelberg University Press, 2023, pages 71-103. DOI.
Muharram, Mohammed. "Teaching the Blue Humanities: Sources, Strategies, and Challenges." Towards ‘Bluer’ Humanities: Oceanic Meditations in Art, Literature and Culture, edited by Razeena P. R. and Sheeba M. K., New Delhi: Authorspress, 2024, pages 23–41.
Schaffeld, Norbert. “‘It’s for Fellows only!’: On the Postcolonial Stance of Matthew Brown’s Maths Film The Man Who Knew Infinity.” Can it Be? Representations of Science in 21st Century Fiction, edited by Nina Engelhardt and Julia Hoydis. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019, pages 153-171. DOI.
von Gleich, Paula. “Slavery, Migration, and the Genealogies of Blackness in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing.” Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations: Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities through the Critique of Anti-blackness, edited by Philip A. Kretsedemas and Jamella Gow. Temple University Press, 2024, pages 170-193. [order copy here