%0 Journal Article
%T Thinking Through the Sea. Stranding and Other Metaphors, in Search of Cognitive Alternatives
%A Owczarska, Małgorzata
%J Arts & Cultural Studies Review
%V 2021
%R 10.4467/20843860PK.21.018.14075
%N Issue 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/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/myslec-przez-morze-sztrandowanie-i-inne-metafory-w-poszukiwaniu-poznawczych-alternatyw
%X 
	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.