Liminal Waterway Countercultures

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#liminalwaterwaycountercultures | Daniella Shaw, PhD 📸 My latest project 'Currents of Change: Lived Histories of Liverpool’s Waterfront', has just completed its first two sessions with an incredible cohort of Liverpool residents! Through participatory ...

A dispatch from our Liverpool field site by Daniella Shaw

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What Made Me Care about Environmental Struggles? Spoiler: It Wasn’t the Usual Doom‑mongering. Last year I landed a job on the project “Liminal Waterway Countercultures,” and here I want to highlight some amazing writings I have explored along the way.

A weekend read from our own Jelena Lalatovic:

On reading eco-critique as a Marxist

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Snow on the Croatian littoral

Pictured: #Guinness barrels on the Lady Grania's maiden voyage from #Dublin to #Liverpool, 1953.

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New year greetings from the Marseille littoral

#SretanBožić

#Dramalj

Mid winter greeting from our PI in the English westcountry

Mid winter greetings from our Croatian team.

If you’re excited by @danielsoar.bsky.social’s @lrb.co.uk review of Pynchon’s new novel, you’re going to want to follow our project #LiminalWater, the premise of which is that Rijeka (Fiume) is in fact the centre of the universe. chanse.org/liminalwater/

Two places some of our team have been this week. Can you identify both locations?

Including “North African Jewish Heritage, Interrupted Transmission, and
Return”, by our @samsamev.bsky.social

Fragments d'un littoral ouvrier : de l'industrie aux habitats informels a l'Estaque, Marseille (années 1970)
Giulia Buffoli from our @univ-amu.fr team, presenting this week in Normandy at the brilliant Coastline in motion workshop.
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Day 2 of “Knowkedge Exchange for Slow Hope”. Here’s Tea and Jelena about to star in the methods café…

And here’s Jelena Lalatović presenting our theory of change to the conference

We’re untangling our #LiminalWater theory of change as part of a training session at #KnowledgeExchangeForSlowHope

Here’s a snippet of our PI @bengidley.bsky.social speed-introducing #LiminalWater

So many wonderful projects but here we showcase four that resonate most with ours: #CoastARTS, #HomeInCrisis, #Ruralex and #TiCToC

Cool to hear about the other projects in this programme. Here’s some maps @jennywustenberg.bsky.social shared (it was nice to hear LiminalWater singled out for being in so many places on the map)!

At an event in Nottingham. Nottingham Trent @jennywustenberg.bsky.social reminds us that as well as our sector as a whole, languages in particular are under attack. So important to remember this while attempting to conduct business as usual in academia.

Many of our team are in Nottingham for “Knowkedge Exchange for Slow Hope” as part of the HERA-CHANSE Crisis – Perspectives from the Humanities programme. Fantastic welcoming talk by @jennywustenberg.bsky.social

Our Portuguese PI, Raquel Gil Carvalheira, with seashells from the maritime museum at Ílhavo.

Our central European and Balkan research teams, along with our fantastic partners from Akademie Graz and the Rijeka maritime museum, had a very productive workshop in Graz this week.

Even more splendid photos of Professor Car representing us in Vienna

Our Croatian PI, Professor Milka Car, is presenting our project in imperially splendid Vienna today.

Happy to share that our Zagreb team member Jelena Lalatovic will be presenting some of the research she has been doing on the project at the Latin American Studies Association Congress #LASA2026 next year in Paris, in a panel on periodical countercultures.

From our Croatian team on the Adriatic

Activists of @eausecours.bsky.social mourning lakes lost to mining yesterday in Ottawa by the parliament, observed by our PI @bengidley.bsky.social

Pictured: Cast iron Sailors' Home railing detail c1850, #Liverpool.

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