The Thread of Water: Ethnography, Photography, & Feminist Ecologies, Julie Patarin-Jossec

"The Thread of Water" is a reflexive wandering in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. The photographs investigate the colonial politics of the underseas through the eeriness of subaquatic weightlessness and light contrasts: artifacts and bodies are altered, if not disincarnated, in undefined waterscapes that build a narrative of dispossession and perdition. From digital to analog photography, including thermal imagery, the collection curated for this book questions how movement can transcend landscapes to embrace affect. But, more than anything, "The Thread of Water" is an intimate narrative about trauma and queerness that navigates different forms of storytelling (photographs, drawings, poetry, fieldwork notes) to explore the in-betweens, the coexistent multiplicities, and the pervasiveness of liberatory praxis.

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Julie Patarin-Jossec‘s work spans the areas of feminist and Indigenous theory, ocean studies, and visual sociology. Through ethnography and art-based methods, she is interested in how colonial politics of dispossession and domestication articulate capitalist primitive accumulation and patriarchal violence while generating spaces for agency by disempowered populations. She investigates these dynamics in the fields of commercial diving and shellfish farming. Julie's audiovisual practice includes analog photography, essay film, documentary film, sound design, and experimental imagery techniques (e.g., thermal photography).

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ISBN: 978-1-962415-00-2