Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies

This introduction puts forth a working definition of oceanic kinship as with the ocean and shaped by ocean. It uses notion critical idiom conceptual lens through which we can examine turn’s potential for rethinking forms human nonhuman belonging. Modernity coloniality were spurred sustained mobility. The oceans, waterways material presences, have helped shape modern-day (re-)configurations kinship. acknowledges kinship’s situatedness within conditions systemic racism, colonial injustice, global power imbalances in various contexts im/mobility, labor, ecologies, presently historically. Our encompasses practices mutual care emerge from an understanding interdependence, collectivity, affiliation. With its focus on care, this charts new tradition studies.