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- English
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About this book
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 lawâand international law in particularâcapable 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Endorsements
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- Introduction: Amphibious Legal Geographies: Toward LandâSea Regimes
- 1 The Vexed Liminality of Hydrothermal Vents: An Opportunity to Unmake the Law of the Sea
- 2 Commodifying the Oceans: The North Sea Continental Shelf Cases Revisited
- 3 Imagining Justice with the Abyssal Ocean
- 4 Genetic Freedom of the Seas in the Age of Extractivism: Marine Genetic Resources in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
- 5 Oceanic Heterolegalities? Ocean Commons and the Heterotopias of Sovereign Legality
- 6 Mining the Seas: Speculative Fictions and Futures
- 7 Navigating the Structural Coherence of Sea Ice
- 8 UNCLOS as a Geopolitical Chokepoint: Locked Down, Locked In, Locked Out
- 9 From Extended Urbanization to Ocean Gentrification: Miamiâs River Port and the Precarious Geographies of Haitian Shipping
- 10 Miles and Norms in the Fishery of Marseille: On the Interface between Social Norms and Legal Rules
- 11 Divided Environments: Scalar Challenges in Swedenâs Marine and Coastal Water Planning
- 12 Good HumanâTurtle Relationships in Indonesia: Exploring Intersecting Legalities in Sea Turtle Conservation
- Afterword: We Are All Complicit: Performing Law through Wavewriting
- Index