ABSTRACT
The final chapter ties the essays together as a series of ‘small stories’ that considers human-shark relationships as a figurative entry into two contemporary conversations: first, about human engagements with a more-than-human world; and second, about continuing concerns around the oppressive effects of normative heterosexuality and hegemonic masculinity. Each small story presents a collection of images, events, bodies, emotions, discourses, texts, objects, ideas, locations and memories, brought together as assemblages for ongoing learning and engagement with the world. The final chapter also presents an autoethnographic accounts of human-shark relationships that draws on personal experiences of ocean swimming with sharks, reflects on their destruction at the hands of humans, and imagines their escape to freedom.
