Assembling scholars from distant disciplines and orientations, this book inaugurates a new subfield of critical marine legal studies.
Irus Braverman is Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Her books include Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine (2009), Zooland: The Institution of Nature (2012), and Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink (2018) as well as the coedited volume Blue Legalities: The Laws and Life of the Sea (2020). Braverman's monograph, Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel, is forthcoming.
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