Sea-time : an ethnographic adventure

"This book is an ethnography that draws upon 23 years of qualitative research and shipboard field work in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time. Change over time and the experience of time on board are organising the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Sampson, H. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
SeriesRoutledge advances in ethnography
Subjects
Merchant marine > History.
Merchant ships > History.
Sailors > History.
Shipping > History.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781003440123
1003440126
9781040001851
1040001858
9781040001882
1040001882
9781032576107
9781032576060
1032576103
1032576065
Physical Description1 online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Joining Beluga
  • Sea craft
  • Full steam ahead
  • Crashing and banging in port
  • Stopping and starting: from the Bosporus to the Black Sea
  • Heading for home: shipboard reflections
  • The ebb and flow of time
  • Gender matters: the challenges of being female on board
  • How ships lost their 'rock and roll'!
  • Spartan standards and sacrifice: a life on floating steel
  • Conclusions, signing off and final thoughts.

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