Full Description
Laws of the Sea assembles scholars from law, geography, anthropology, and environmental humanities to consider the possibilities of a critical ocean approach in legal studies.
Unlike the United Nations' monumental Convention on the Law of the Sea, which imagines one comprehensive constitutional framework for governing the ocean, Laws of the Sea approaches oceanic law in plural and dynamic ways. Critically engaging contemporary concerns about the fate of the ocean, the collection's twelve chapters range from hydrothermal vents through the continental shelf and marine genetic resources to coastal communities in France, Sweden, Florida, and Indonesia. Documenting the longstanding binary of land and sea, the chapters pose a fundamental challenge to European law's "terracentrism" and its pervasive influence on juridical modes of knowing and making the world. Together, the chapters ask: is contemporary Eurocentric law—and international law in particular—capable of moving away from its capitalist and colonial legacies, established through myriad oceanic abstractions and classifications, toward more amphibious legalities?
Laws of the Sea will appeal to legal scholars, geographers, anthropologists, cultural and political theorists, as well as scholars in the environmental humanities, political ecology, ocean studies, and animal studies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
Amphibious Legal Geographies: Toward Land-Sea Regimes
Irus Braverman
Chapter 1
The Vexed Liminality of Hydrothermal Vents: An Opportunity to Unmake the Law of the Sea
Surabhi Ranganathan
Chapter 2
Commodifying the Oceans: The North Sea Continental Shelf Cases Revisited
Henry Jones
Chapter 3
Imagining Justice with the Abyssal Ocean
Susan Reid
Chapter 4
Genetic Freedom of the Seas in the Age of Extractivism: Marine Genetic Resources in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
Irus Braverman
Chapter 5
Oceanic Heterolegalities? Ocean Commons and the Heterotopias of Sovereign Legality
Vito De Lucia
Chapter 6
Mining the Seas: Speculative Fictions and Futures
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Chapter 7
Navigating the Structural Coherence of Sea Ice
Philip Steinberg, Greta Ferloni, Claudio Aporta, Gavin Bridge, Aldo Chircop, Kate Coddington, Stuart Elden, Stephanie C. Kane, Timo Koivurova, Jessica Shadian, and Anna Stammler-Gossmann
Chapter 8
UNCLOS as a Geopolitical Chokepoint: Locked Down, Locked In, Locked Out
Elspeth Probyn
Chapter 9
From Extended Urbanization to Ocean Gentrification: Miami's River Port and the Precarious Geographies of Haitian Shipping
Jeffrey S. Kahn
Chapter 10
Miles and Norms in the Fishery of Marseille: On the Interface between Social Norms and Legal Rules
Florian Grisel
Chapter 11
Divided Environments: Scalar Challenges in Sweden's Marine and Coastal Water Planning
Aron Westholm
Chapter 12
Good Human-Turtle Relationships in Indonesia: Exploring Intersecting Legalities in Sea Turtle Conservation
Annet Pauwelussen & Shannon Switzer Swanson
Afterword
We Are All Complicit: Performing Law through Wavewriting
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Index
