Visiting Speaker Series: David O'Kane
Blue Heritage and the UN Sustainability Goals: Constraints and Possibilities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds.
Blue Heritage encompasses all forms of heritage that pertain to the seas and oceans, and which arise out of human engagement with the earth鈥檚 waters. Today, the fate of the world hangs in the balance because so much of the seas and oceans are facing uncertain futures. Uncertain futures, also, face the human communities who depend on the seas and oceans for their livelihoods.
The globalization of the world economy, meanwhile, has produced a global blue economy worth billions, whose economic use and exploitation of the seas and oceans has done so much to damage the blue world, and human blue heritage along with it.
This talk, by a co-editor of the recent Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage, will discuss what is at stake including 鈥榖lue globalization鈥� of the coastal commons, community responses and adaptations to these stressors, promising policy shifts in the Global South and North, and the relationship of these processes to international development issues in general and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular goal #14 Life Below Water.
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Dr. O鈥橩ane will be on campus for this event. A Teams link is also provided for guests to join virtually.
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David O'Kane is a graduate of Queen's University Belfast, and the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Since the 1990s he has been involved in research on issues such as land reform and nationalism in post-independence Eritrea, education policy in post-conflict Sierra Leone. His present projects include work on Blue Heritage, the forms of heritage pertaining to the world's seas and oceans: he is co-editor, with Professor Rose Boswell and Professor Jeffrey Hill, of the recent Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage, which came out in 2022 and will soon be joined by further edited volumes on this subject. A former resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dr. O'Kane has taught and researched all over the world, in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Russia, New Zealand, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, and Germany, where he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.