Pilot: Introduction to The Deep Duck Dive Podcast

In this introductory episode of the The Deep Duck Dive Podcast, we introduce you to the podcast and ourselves as academics living and surfing in the global South (South Africa). The podcast seeks to engage with the oceanic turn in the global South by focusing on issues that matter within surfing as a lifestyle sport. As co-hosts, we have approached podcasting as forms of public pedagogy and public scholarship.

To read more about our approach to this podcast as a soundwork that provides an alternative pedagogical practice within a justice-to-come public scholarship that seeks to contribute to the intellectual currents of hydrocolonialism, hydrofeminism and critical surf studies, please read our open access journal article below:

Thompson, Glen, & Graaff, Karen. (2023). "Thinking with/in surfing: Podcasting as public pedagogy and scholarship in/for the global South." Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 11(2), 38-54.

We received funding for podcast recording equipment from the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, at the University of the Western Cape, as part of the New Imaginaries for an Intersectional Critical Humanities Project on Gender and Sexual Justice, a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Thanks to Christine King for our logo design.

Karen Graaff is a Research Fellow, Women's and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape.

Glen Thompson is a Research Fellow, History Department, Stellenbosch University.