Maritime Professions

Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś (1973), professor at the University of Szczecin, Poland. She has published articles on maritime professions (e.g. in European Societies) and introduced Research Stream in Maritime Sociology to European Sociological Association conferences. Frank Sowa, Ph.D. (1974), professor at University of Applied Sciences Georg Simon Ohm, Germany. He has worked on maritime issues, e.g. identity politics of the Greenlandic Inuit and whaling culture in Japan. He organized several research streams and sessions in Maritime Sociology. Marie C. Grasmeier (1979) studied nautical science, social anthropology and gender studies in Bremen, Germany. She wrote her PhD-thesis on the occupational culture and occupational identities of seafarers in the global merchant fleet. She currently works in the civilian maritime search-and-rescue fleet as a nautical expert and teaches ethnographic methods at the University of Bremen.

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Introduction: Maritime Professions as a Field of Social Research

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


Part 1: Macro-Sociological and Organizational Approaches



1 Seafarers and Dockworkers: Implications for Industrial Sociology

 Shaun Ruggunan
2 “Making a Ship”: Maritime Labour Regime(s) and Alienation in Norwegian Offshore Production

 Camilla Mevik
3 Boundary-work, Occupational Identities and Class-experiences of Global Seafarers

 Marie C. Grasmeier and Linda Beck


Part 2: Gender Issues



4 The Role of Discursive Contexts in Constructing the Identity of Women at Sea: Towards Informal Dimensions of Maritime Adult Education

 Iwona Królikowska and Astrid Meczkowska-Christiansen
5 Strategies and Struggle of Women Fishers for the Rescue and Conservation of a Coastal Lagoon System: “Mujeres Pescadoras del Manglar”

 Nuria Jimenez Garcia
6 The Fishing Profession in Quebec: Structure, Origins and Development of a “Typically Male” Sector

 Marco Alberio


Part 3: Micro-Sociological Approaches



7 “Team Play”: Seafarers’ Strategies for Coping with Job Demands of Short Sea Cargo Shipping Lines

 Birgit Pauksztat
8 The Role of Personality Traits, Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction in the Explanation of Seafarers’ Well-being

 Ana Sliškovic
9 A Study on the Sense of Relative Deprivation of Elderly Fishers from the Perspective of Ocean Sociology: The Example of Island S and G in Zhoushan City, China

 Wen Zhang and Ya Wen
10 Families of Seamen in the Period of Political Changes and Today – Homelessness Issues

 Roland Dobrzeniecki-Lukasiewicz


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