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Imagining Oceans

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Melissa Langer and Catharine Axley
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Oceans

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The ocean is not just one thing. How have we imagined the oceans? How have we represented them? Margaret Cohen and Anne Higonnet reflect on these questions.

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5:53

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Imagining the Oceans

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Margaret Cohen
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Imagining the Oceans

Curator 
Margaret Cohen
The oceans cover three-quarters of the globe. They sustain life on land and shape societies across history and culture. The ocean environment at the same time is forbidding and remote, hostile to human physiology and beyond the lived experience of most people, even today.  Representations...
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