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Corals in the city: cultivating ocean life in the Anthropocene
Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2019-11-13 , DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2019.1688382
Irus Braverman 1
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ABSTRACT

Ocean life is often portrayed as antithetical to life in the city. Drawing on interviews with coral hobbyists and aquarists, my article focuses on the emergence of the coral aquarium hobby within the urban home. I depict the recent fascination of city dwellers from around the globe with corals, explore the history and contemporary characteristics of those who propagate them as well as their reasons for doing so, and examine the urban coral industry. I also argue that corals reveal the problems with existing regulatory modes of classifying animals. The corals who live in urban tanks are not exactly wild, nor are they domesticated; they are not exactly pets, nor are they plants or ornaments; and since they are clones, it is hard to determine where one individual starts and another begins – and what death even means in this context, in which production and consumption are intertwined. Finally, while tropical corals are dying at alarming rates in the oceans, their numbers in the city are on the rise. Instead of heading to tropical islands to experience corals up close, coral enthusiasts are transplanting themselves into the city as their corals require careful attention to survive in the urban environment.



中文翻译:

城市中的珊瑚:在人类世间培养海洋生物

摘要

人们通常将海洋生物刻画为与城市生活相对。通过对珊瑚爱好者和水族爱好者的采访,我的文章重点介绍了城市家庭中珊瑚水族爱好者的出现。我描述了最近全球各地城市居民对珊瑚的迷恋,探讨了传播珊瑚的人们的历史和当代特征及其传播原因,并考察了城市珊瑚产业。我还认为,珊瑚揭示了现有的动物分类管理模式的问题。生活在城市坦克中的珊瑚不是完全野生的,也不是驯化的。它们不完全是宠物,也不是植物或装饰品;而且由于它们是克隆人,因此很难确定一个人从哪里开始,另一个人从哪里开始–在这种情况下,死亡甚至意味着什么,生产和消费交织在一起。最后,尽管热带珊瑚在海洋中以惊人的速度死亡,但在城市中的热带珊瑚数量却在增加。珊瑚爱好者并没有前往热带岛屿近距离体验珊瑚,而是将自己移植到城市中,因为他们的珊瑚需要仔细的关注才能在城市环境中生存。

更新日期:2019-11-13
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