The ocean and its inhabitants sketch and stretch our understandings of law in unexpected ways. Inspired by the blue turn in the social sciences and humanities, Blue Legalities explores how regulatory frameworks and governmental infrastructures are made, reworked, and contested in the oceans. Its interdisciplinary contributors analyze topics that range from militarization and Maori cosmologies to island building in the South China Sea and underwater robotics. Throughout, Blue Legalities illuminates the vast and unusual challenges associated with regulating the turbulent materialities and lives of the sea. Offering much more than an analysis of legal frameworks, the chapters in this volume show how the more-than-human ocean is central to the construction of terrestrial institutions and modes of governance. By thinking with the more-than-human ocean, Blue Legalities questions what we think we know—and what we don’t know—about oceans, our earthly planet, and ourselves.
Contributors. Stacy Alaimo, Amy Braun, Irus Braverman, Holly Jean Buck, Jennifer L. Gaynor, Stefan Helmreich, Elizabeth R. Johnson, Stephanie Jones, Zsofia Korosy, Berit Kristoffersen, Jessica Lehman, Astrida Neimanis, Susan Reid, Alison Rieser, Katherine G. Sammler, Astrid Schrader, Kristen L. Shake, Phil Steinberg
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- Introduction. Blue Legalities: Governing More-Than-Human Oceans
- 1. Solwara 1 and the Sessile Ones
- 2. Held in Suspense: Mustard Gas Legalities in the Gotland Deep
- 3. Kauri and the Whale: Oceanic Matter and Meaning in New Zealand
- 4. Edges and Flows: Exploring Legal Materialities and Biophysical Politics of Sea Ice
- 5. Liquid Territory, Shifting Sands: Property, Sovereignty, and Space in Southeast Asia’s Tristate Maritime Boundary Zone
- 6. Wave Law
- 7. Robotic Life in the Deep Sea
- 8. The Technopolitics of Ocean Sensing
- 9. The Hydra and the Leviathan: Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and the Militarized Seaspace ·
- 10. Clupea liberum: Hugo Grotius, Free Seas, and the Political Biology of Herring
- 11. Whales and the Colonization of the Pacific Ocean
- 12. The Sea Wolf and the Sovereign
- 13. Marine Microbiopolitics: Haunted Microbes before the Law
- 14. “Got Algae?”: Putting Marine Life to Work for Sustainability
- 15. “Climate Engineering Doesn’t Stop Ocean Acidification”: Addressing Harms to Ocean Life in Geoengineering Imaginaries
- Afterword. Adequate Imaginaries for Anthropocene Seas
- Contributors
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