Putting Lifeworlds at Sea: Studying Meaning-Making in Marine Research

摘要: An individual’s ‘lifeworld’ guides perceptions, the attachment of meaning and in sum, interpretation reality everyday life. Yet lifeworld (Ger. Lebenswelt) has been an undertheorized concept within interdisciplinary marine research. Through a two-stage analysis, we critically engage with philosophical foundations, heuristic value methodological versatility that interpretivist stands to offer, drawing from contemporary With two illustrative case studies exploring lived realities vastly different waterworlds rural Uzbekistan Sri Lanka, further strengths limitations integrating lifeworlds analysis into work on localized perceptions. As second step, analyze efficacy adopting phenomenological-lifeworlds approach order inductively explore diverse coastal sea-based peoples, while acknowledging terrestrially-bound anthropocentric genesis as concept. Therefore, enliven hybrid thematic currents, conceptual debates methodologies ‘marine lifeworlds’ its own terms, propose vantage points for intervention by: a) engaging cognitive-material meanings interpretations 'saltwater' realities; b) tracing multiple modes sociality being with/in-the-world go beyond human entanglements. In argue affords spaces through which study complexities ambivalences rife surface-level it promises means sidestep over-simplistic inferences vague embattled notion ‘culture’, widening horizons reflective experimental-experiential lines inquiry.