TY - SER AU - Steinberg, Philip AU - Peters, Kimberley TI - Cross-currents and undertows : : A response PY - 2019/// PB - Sage KW - excess KW - wet ontology KW - ocean KW - materiality KW - extension N2 - In our response, we address two themes that appear in several of the commentaries. First, we elaborate on our decision to maintain a focus on the ocean, rather than turning to a term that speaks more clearly to geographic categories (e.g. the sea), elemental foundations (e.g. water), earth-system processes (e.g. the hydrosphere). Secondly, we address the critique that, in our effort to highlight the ocean’s geophysical liveliness, we may overlook the ocean’s liveliness as a space continually made through human and more-than-human encounters, cultural understandings and histories. UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619879521 ER -