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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Blue Legalities attend to the seas as a legally and politically conflicted space to analyze the conflicts that emerge where systems of governance interact with complex geophysical, ecological, economic, biological, and technological processes.
Trade Review“Not a minute too early, the ‘blue turn’ finally takes pride of place in legal thinking.
Blue Legalities balances the legal and the liquid in all their emanations. The contributions span from the oceanic depths of our planet to the glimmering surface of our limited comprehension, combining in an undeniably poetic whole, law, politics, science, anthropology, history, and philosophy amongst other epistemes. The feat of this book is diving headlong in the fathomless challenge of treating the material and the textual as one ontological ripple.” -- Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, author of * Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere *
“Elisabeth Mann Borgese, one of the architects of the first Law of the Sea conference, argued that any approach to the ocean must be inherently interdisciplinary. Irus Braverman and Elizabeth R. Johnson have fulfilled this claim with a wonderful interdisciplinary collection. Plumbing the depths of human and more-than-human life and law at sea, this volume is a welcome and timely contribution to the field of critical ocean studies.” -- Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, author of * Allegories of the Anthropocene *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Blue Legalities: Governing More-Than-Human Oceans / Elizabeth R. Johnson and Irus Braverman 1
1. Solwara 1 and the Sessile Ones / Susan Reid 25
2. Held in Suspense: Mustard Gas Legalities in the Gotland Deep / Astrida Neimanis 45
3. Kauri and the Whale: Oceanic Matter and Meaning in New Zealand / Katherine G. Sammler 63
4. Edges and Flows: Exploring Legal Materialities and Biophysical Politics of Sea Ice / Philip E. Steinberg, Berit Kristoffersen, and Kristen L. Shake 85
5. Liquid Territory, Shifting Sands: Property, Sovereignty, and Space in Southeast Asia's Tristate Maritime Boundary Zone / Jennifer L. Gaynor 107
6. Wave Law / Stefan Helmreich 129
7. Robotic Life in the Deep Sea / Irus Braverman 147
8. The Technopolitics of Ocean Sensing / Jessica Lehman 165
9. The Hydra and the Leviathan: Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and the Militarized Seaspace / Elizabeth R. Johnson 183
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Clupea Liberum: Hugo Grotius, Free Seas, and the Political Biology of Herring / Alison Rieser 201
11. Whales and the Colonization of the Pacific Ocean / Zsofia Korosy 219
12. The Sea Wolf and the Sovereign / Stephanie Jones 237
13. Marine Microbiopolitics: Haunted Microbes before the Law / Astrid Schrader 255
14. "Got Algae?": Putting Marine Life to Work for Sustainability / Amy Braun 275
15. "Climate Engineering Doesn't Stop Ocean Acidification": Addressing Harms to Ocean Life in Geoengineering Imaginaries / Holly Jean Buck 295
Afterword. Adequate Imaginaries for Anthropocene Seas / Stacy Alaimo 311
Contributors 327
Index 331
