Valuing the Past, Sustaining the Future? : Exploring Coastal Societies, Childhood(s) and Local Knowledge in Times of Global Transition

This book explores questions related to social and cultural sustainability of coastal communities in transition through the lens of childhood. Contributors explore diverse local and national contexts spanning several countries aiming to shed light on the shifting and dynamic interplay between education, knowledge production, society and working life in coastal environments from an intergenerational perspective. Key points that are disclosed are: the current threat to the social and cultural sustainability of coastal communities in different local and national contexts, and the reason they must be preserved the centrality of processes of inter generational transmission of local knowledge to the preservation and development of sustainable coastal communities the central role of children and young people as actors in creating sustainable livelihoods, economies and knowledge in coastal communities for the future? the practices across different country contexts The book will address the challenges to sustainability experienced by local communities in light of local, national and global social and economic changes. Looking at these challenges cross-nationally and through the lens of childhood, and knowledge production across generations, will provide for a much-needed perspective in ongoing discussion on sustainability in coastal communities. Acknowledgments 6 Contents 8 About the Editors 10 Contributors 13 Chapter 1: Exploring Coastal Societies and Knowledge in Transition Across Generations 14 1.1 Coastal Communities in Transition 16 1.2 The Changing Values of Education and Knowledge 19 1.3 Education, Knowledge, and Sustainability 21 1.4 Researching Children and Young People: Theoretical Perspectives 22 1.5 Methodology 24 1.6 Mapping the Chapters of This Volume 26 References 31 Chapter 2: Coastal Communities Past, Present, and Future? The Value of Social and Cultural Sustainability 36 2.1 Introduction 36 2.2 Conceptualising Sustainability 38 2.2.1 Sustainable Development 39 2.3 Sustainability in Small Coastal Communities 40 2.4 Challenges of Coastal Sustainability and the SDG Agenda 41 2.4.1 Social and Cultural Sustainability - A Relational Intergenerational Approach 43 2.4.2 Bringing Culture In 45 2.5 Cultural Heritage and Collective Social Memory 47 2.6 Local Knowledge Transmission 48 2.7 Justice and Sustainability 50 2.8 Valuing the Past, Sustaining the Future? 51 References 52 Chapter 3: Growing Up in a Norwegian Coastal Town in the Nineteenth Century: Work and Intergenerational Relations 56 3.1 Introduction 56 3.2 Intergenerational Relations and Child Work 57 3.3 Shipping Industry in Porsgrunn in the Nineteenth Century 58 3.4 Young Boys at Sea 60 3.5 Changing Businesses and Child Work in Porsgrunn 64 3.6 Child Work and Intergenerational Relations on Shore in Porsgrunn 67 3.7 Work, Education and Intergenerational Relations in a Pre-modern Coastal Community 70 References 72 Chapter 4: `I ́m Treading Water Here for My Generation ́: Gendered and Generational Perspectives on Informal Knowledge Transmiss... 74 4.1 Introduction - Local Knowledge in Coastal Contexts 74 4.2 Setting the Coastal Context: The Transition from Working Childhoods to Educational Trajectories 76 4.3 Theorising `Local ́ Knowledge and (Sociocultural) Sustainability 78 4.4 The Irish Study Field Sites and Sample Population 79 4.5 Methods and Tools of Analysis 80 4.6 Manifestations of Informal Local Knowledge Transmissions Across Time and Gender in the Sustainability of Irish Coastal Com... 81 4.6.1 Broadening and Deepening a `Way of Life ́ 82 4.6.2 Deepening and Regrounding 84 4.7 Hybrid `Local ́ Knowledge for the Future? 86 4.8 Conclusion 87 References 89 Chapter 5: Local Knowledge and Change in a Small Fishing Community in Cyprus: Implications for Social and Cultural Sustainabil... 93 5.1 Introduction 93 5.2 Sense of Place, Belonging, and Ruptures in the Intergenerational Transmission of Local Knowledge 95 5.3 Methodology 99 5.4 Local Knowledge, Skills, and Values 101 5.5 Place, Intergenerational Relationships, and Sustainability 103 5.6 Conclusion 108 References 110 Chapter 6: The Shifting Landscape of Childhood and Literacies of the Sea in a Coastal Community in Mid-Norway: Sustaining the ... 112 6.1 Introduction 112 6.2 Methodology and Site of Investigation 115 6.2.1 Landscapes of Childhood and Literacies of the Sea: Theoretical Perspectives 116 6.3 Landscapes of Childhood and Literacies of the Sea in a Small-Scale Fishing Community 117 6.3.1 Place as a Site of Knowing; the Sea as an Educator 118 6.3.2 Mutual Interdependent and Intergenerational Communities of Work 119 6.3.3 Robust Adaptation to Marine Resources: Diverse Skills; Mangsyssler ́n 120 6.3.4 Moral/Cultural Values: The Best of the Community as an Overall Aim 121 6.3.5 ``When People Got Money, There Was a Change ́ ́: Transition to the Fish-Farming Industry 122 6.3.6 Kystbarnehagen: An Institutional Space for Revitalization of Literacies of the Sea? 125 6.3.7 ``By No Doubt, I Want to Be a Fisherman ́ ́ 126 6.4 Sustainability by Valuing the Landscape of Childhood and the Literacies of the Sea: Concluding Discussion 128 References 130 Chapter 7: Learning from the Coast: Youth, Family, and Local Knowledge in the Faroe Islands 134 7.1 Introduction and Theoretical Framework 135 7.2 Method and Context 138 7.3 How to Grow Potatoes 140 7.4 The Big Catch 142 7.5 How to Walk Zigzag 144 7.6 Making the Knot 145 References 147 Chapter 8: Sustainability, Knowledge and Social Identity: Commonalities, Conflicts and Complexities in Coastal Communities in ... 150 8.1 Introduction 150 8.2 Sustainability 151 8.3 Knowledge 154 8.4 Social Identity 156 8.5 The Research Context 157 8.5.1 Tasmanian Research Sites 157 8.6 Methodology and Methods 159 8.7 Sustainability, Knowledge and Identities on the Coast 160 8.7.1 Fishing as Identity 160 8.7.2 Coastal and Tasmanian: Shared Narratives of Identity 161 8.7.3 Conflicting Identities 162 8.7.4 Developmentalism as Sustainability and Identity 163 8.7.5 Environmentalism, Sustainability and Identity 164 8.8 What Knowledge Is Valued? What Knowledge Is Valuable? 165 8.9 Concluding Comments 168 References 169 Chapter 9: ``I Shall Be a Fisherman ́ ́: Learning from the Past, Imagining the Future: Observations from a Viable Fishing Commun... 172 9.1 Prologue 172 9.2 When It All Starts 174 9.3 Teenagers and Youth 177 9.4 How We Teach and Taught Our Boys to Become Fishers 182 9.5 Conclusions 184 References 185 Chapter 10: The Sea Lost and Found: Changes and Interdependencies in a Coastal Community in Denmark 188 10.1 Introduction 189 10.2 A Relational Approach to Communities 191 10.3 Changing Interdependencies 193 10.4 Local Opportunities 195 10.5 Ambivalent Perspectives 197 10.6 Detachment from the Local 199 10.7 Social Viability: Present and Future Perspectives 201 References 203 Chapter 11: Blue Education: Exploring Case Studies of Place-Based and Intergenerational Learning on Norwegian Islands 205 11.1 Introduction 205 11.2 Theoretical Perspectives - The Coast as a Site for Place- and Activity-Based Forms of Learning 207 11.2.1 Intergenerational Dimension of Place- and Activity-Based Forms of Learning 208 11.2.2 The Maritime Pedagogue 209 11.3 Methodological Framework 209 11.3.1 Case 1: `Out on the Sea, Into the Farmyard ́ 209 11.3.2 Case 2: `From the Town to the Sea ́: Travelling to Explore `the Local ́ in a Small Fishing Community 211 11.3.3 Case 3: Education, Blue Agriculture and Local Food Production 212 11.4 Valuing Blue Agriculture: Students ́ Experiences 213 11.5 Mustering the Grit and Generational Linage as an Educational Asset 214 11.6 Out on the Ocean: Into Intergenerational Learning 216 11.7 The Maritime Pedagogue 218 11.8 Concluding Remarks 219 References 219 Chapter 12: Becoming Coastal in a Minor Key 224 12.1 Living at the Edge of the World 226 12.2 Learning the More-Than-Human Sea 229 12.3 Gendered Seamanship 233 12.4 Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Sustainable Ethics 234 12.5 The Ethics of Becoming Coastal 235 12.6 Spinosa Lived on the Coast 238 References 240