%0 Journal Article %T Myśleć przez morze. Sztrandowanie i inne metafory, w poszukiwaniu poznawczych alternatyw %A Owczarska, Małgorzata %J Przegląd Kulturoznawczy %V 2021 %R 10.4467/20843860PK.21.018.14075 %N Numer 2 (48) Błękitna humanistyka %P 245-267 %K blue humanities, water, ocean, sea epistemologies, Polynesia, blue anthropology, hydro-politics, sea metaphors, ship as metaphor, Polynesian canoe, Pacific studies, climate crisis, water in anthropology, stranding, wreck %@ 1895-975X %D 2021 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/artykul/myslec-przez-morze-sztrandowanie-i-inne-metafory-w-poszukiwaniu-poznawczych-alternatyw %X Thinking Through the Sea. Stranding and Other Metaphors, in Search of Cognitive Alternatives In this article, I would like to consider the comparison of stranding to landcentric cognitive processes that translate into the creation of an impossible world – devoid of water and its potentials, rhythms and cycles immersed in it. I will illustrate this with examples of fresh water and sea hydro-policies (including nuclear trials in the Pacific) and will explore cognitive and activist alternatives proposed by the Polynesian sailors and navigators. I will also use two ambiguous metaphors of a ship and a Polynesian voyaging canoe as an opening for different narrations of the planets’ future in the climate crisis.