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Laws of the Sea
Interdisciplinary Currents
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Blue humanities; Maritime Studies; Materialism; Ocean; PosthumanismDOI
10.4324/9781003205173ISBN
9781000608359, 9781032070575, 9781003205173, 9781032070629, 9781000608359Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2023Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
Jurisprudence and general issues
Environment law
International law, transport and commerce: maritime law
Energy and natural resources law
Constitutional and administrative law: general
Applied ecology
Wildlife: aquatic creatures: general interest
The Earth: natural history: general interest
Environmental management
Social and political philosophy