Oceanic Becoming

The Pacific Beneath the Pavements

By: Rob Wilson

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Hardcover | 18 March 2025

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From disappearing coral reefs and ocean acidification to floating great garbage patches, the Pacific Ocean is an ever-present reminder of the Anthropocene. In Oceanic Becoming, Rob Wilson demonstrates that in the midst of the planetary crises the Pacific now faces, it must be understood as interconnected to the other oceans. Wilson frames this interconnection as "Oceania," reconceiving the world oceans as tied to sites of urban dwelling and life sustenance-from Boston to Brisbane-that are increasingly threatened by late capitalism. Confronting these threats, Wilson argues, requires a project he theorizes as "worlding"-a process of world-making and world-remaking across Oceania that would create new forms of belonging and connection at local, regional, and transnational levels. Wilson shows how Oceania is not just a site of peril but one charged with emergent literary and social formations that can provide the basis for new solidarities, futures, and ecologies.

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"Oceanic Becoming foregrounds Rob Wilson's contention that new epistemological frameworks are urgently needed to create a more responsive planetary sense of multispecies belonging and becoming. The significance of his notion of Oceania inheres in its potential to open space, time, and consciousness for other values and modes of being. Epic in scope and written in luminous prose, Oceanic Becoming is an outstanding achievement of signal importance." - Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College "Rob Wilson has the mind of a critic, the heart of a poet, the soul of an excommunicated liberation theologist, and the prose style of a socially astute, fiercely observant novelist. He has written a perpetually cascading oceanic ode, one that draws upon scholarship, reflection, and a life lived to tell the story of the Pacific Ocean and all the lives touched by it. Oceanic Becoming informs and inspires and changes the ways one thinks about the world---about politics, economics, literature---proposing a different way of belonging. It proves that we can still be galvanized by a most ancient of literary forms, the cosmology, disguised though it may be as academic discourse." - Joseph Donahue, Duke University

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