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Anderson, Jon; Davies, Andrew; Peters, Kimberley; Steinberg, Philip E.

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“…Indigenous, Black, Brown, and Southern intellectual traditions are energizing, “enriching” and decolonizing contemporary environmental scholarship on ocean spaces, oceanic justice, and oceanic futures in the western academy (Carter 2019; DeLoughrey 2019; Peters et al 2022; Pugh and Chandler 2021). This innovative scholarship, at the fluid intersections of Geography (Physical and Human), Critical Ocean Studies, and the Environmental Humanities, focuses on wet ontologies of place and archipelagic conceptualizations of governance, that draw on the pivotal work of Edouard Glissant, Epeli Hau’ofa, and Kamau Braithwaite, among others.…”

Section: Whose Oceanic Futures?mentioning

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Decolonizing ocean spaces: Saltwater co-belonging and responsibilities

Lobo

Parsons

2023

Progress in Environmental Geography

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Oceans in the colonial Anthropocene are haunted by the brutal racial logics of slavery, indenture, plunder, violence, death, and multispecies extinction. This brutality manifested through uneven burdens of climate extremes, global warming, ocean acidification, sea level rise, pollution, and threats from offshore energy extraction, chokes the “life force” of oceans that sustain planetary belongings and futures. Global agreements on climate change, biodiversity conventions, sustainable goals, and laws of the sea increasingly attempt to transform dystopic planetary futures through openness to Indigenous and local knowledges. But these overlooked Indigenous, Black, Brown, and southern intellectual traditions of belonging and responsibility in settler colonial, postcolonial, and post-apartheid societies have always existed alongside white, western Euro-American ontologies of the ocean. As subaltern southern and Indigenous scholars, our privileging of ontologies of the ocean amid the racial, colonial, and capitalist logics that continues to suffocate people and the planet, seeks to do more than enrich white, western, English-speaking Euro-American institutions. We, therefore, face ethical dilemmas as we assemble and prioritize strands of literature in our decolonial, polyphonic place-based ocean storytelling that seeks to advance new directions in Environmental Geography.

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Decolonizing ocean spaces: Saltwater co-belonging and responsibilities

Lobo

Parsons

2023

Progress in Environmental Geography

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“…Although resources found in ABNJ are framed as the common property of all and beyond the jurisdictional authority of a single state (Anderson and Peters, 2016; Steinberg, 2001; UNCLOS), they have increasingly been subjected to control by both state and non-state actors (Peters, 2020). Ocean management initiatives frequently divide ocean spaces into geographically defined territories (Acton et al, 2019; Gray, 2018), often resulting in the enclosure of ocean space and the establishment of private property rights over physical resources such as fisheries products and seabed minerals (Campling and Havice, 2014; Mallin and Barbesgaard, 2020; Zalik, 2018).…”

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(Un)claiming rights, resources, and ocean spaces: Marine genetic resources and area-based management tools in high seas governance negotiations

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Campbell

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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After years of informal efforts, the parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) are negotiating an international legally binding instrument to address governance gaps that have impeded attempts to conserve biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ). Though these discussions were initiated in response to concerns about biodiversity, states have used them to advance competing claims regarding rights of access, ownership, and control of ocean spaces and resources. This paper examines how states have discussed ocean space in negotiations regarding area-based management tools (ABMTs) and marine genetic resources (MGRs) at the first three intergovernmental conferences regarding biodiversity in ABNJ. ABMTs, which have become widespread in governing ocean space for conservation, are premised on an ontological framing that ocean space can be divided by geographical boundaries into territories for management. MGRs, on the other hand, are newly recognized governance objects that cross existing spatial boundaries: between areas of national and international jurisdiction, between the seafloor and water column, and between the ocean and the laboratory. Through their mobility, MGRs reveal how territorial forms of governance over material resources intersect with other forms of exclusion, control, and rights-based institutions, suggesting the need to develop creative management regimes that go beyond territorial approaches.

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Decolonizing ocean spaces: Saltwater co-belonging and responsibilities

Decolonizing ocean spaces: Saltwater co-belonging and responsibilities

(Un)claiming rights, resources, and ocean spaces: Marine genetic resources and area-based management tools in high seas governance negotiations

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