1st Edition

Sea Cucumber Stories

By Paula Uimonen Copyright 2026
136 Pages 41 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Sea Cucumber Stories explores multispecies entanglements and ocean worldings, from a sea cucumber perspective. Drawing on environmental, multispecies and ocean anthropology, it enlists the sea cucumber to tell stories of how and why the ocean and its creatures matter to life on our blue planet. The chapters draw on multisited, multimodal and multisensory fieldwork in Tanzania, where the sea... Read more

Introduction: Storytelling with Sea Cucumbers 1. Underwater Creatures  2. Sensory Worldings  3. Suffering Domestication  4. Blue Expansion  5. Ocean Creatures Revisited  References. Index

Biography

Paula Uimonen is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.