1. Temporal imaginations
What transformations in people’s imaginations of the past, present and future do these changes in human-marine relations engender? How do people’s memories, narratives and affects related to these temporal periods become shaped by the disappearance, abundance or arrival of marine species and their experience of their entanglement in these processes? How do imaginations of and affects towards future human-marine relations materialize in the present? How do they envision themselves living with marine life in the near or distant future?
2. Multispecies rythms
How do these changes affect the rhythms and pace of human lives with each other and with marine species? How do seasonal changes, transformations in working and migration patterns and consumption patterns of distant markets intersect to create new synchronies, sequences and interferences in human-marine relations? What new rhythms do they add to the already existing multispecies polyrhythms?
3. Temporal practices
How do people respond to these changing human-marine temporalities? What sort of attempts are made in order to adapt to, counter or influence these temporal transformations? What kind of practices do these changing multispecies rhythms engender? How do different temporal practices – conservation, restoration, market development, new fishing practices and attempt at caring for marine species – combine, collide and find ways to operate simultaneously? How are the differences between various temporal practices politicized and connected to moral evaluations?
By addressing these research questions in each of the three sites, SEATIMES works on the hypothesis that climate change unsettles and transforms human-marine relations in ways that make it particularly visible how temporality emerge from and become shaped by these relations.