Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 9
4. Introduction: maritime introspections 11
5. Part 1: Work and leisure in the port city
6. Altona: Between land and sea 35
7. The future of work: scaffolds and agencies 47
8. Genoa: the story of a port city and its hinterland 55
9. European seaport narratives: mirroring history in contemporary media 63
10. Part 2: Commerce
11. Market stall: maritime commerce in the collections of European maritime museums 77
12. From lighthouses to barcodes 97
13. The European tour 107
14. Bottleneck pressure: Port Said 115
15. Part 3: Metabolic pressure
16. Tarnished gold: border regimes from the Mediterranean to Switzerland 123
17. Liquid territory 143
18. They cleaned the beach before we arrived 149
19. Between the city and the deep sea: on the plastic nature of the Helsinki shoreline 157
20. No trophy 165
21. Part 4: Dreamscapes
22. Haul away: Liverpool’s irregular currents 173
23. North Canada – English Electric, 2010 191
24. A short journey (from Derry to Inishowen) 197
25. A letter to Henrietta 203
26. Acoustic ocean: annotated video script 209