Maritime Spaces and Society (International Studies in Maritime Sociology, #1)

Agnieszka Kolodziej-Durnas, Frank Sowa, Marie Grasmeier, Marie C. Grasmeier, and Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś

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Maritime spaces are socially constructed by humans and refer to seas and islands, coasts, port cities and villages, as well as ships and other human-made marine structures. Social interaction with marine environments and living beings, e.g. in a symbolic, cultural or economic manner, has led to the emergence of spatial structures which affect the knowledge, beliefs, meanings and obstinately patterns. Those structures shape mutual expectations of human beings and form the perception, imagination, or memory of inhabitants of maritime spaces. They enable or restrict human action, construct people’s everyday life, their norms and values, and are changeable.


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  • ISBN10 9004503404
  • ISBN13 9789004503403
  • Publish Date 9 June 2022 (first published 8 June 2022)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill