The ocean as frontier

Steinberg, Philip E.

doi:10.1111/issj.12152

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“…). As Steinberg () indicates, a frontier, as opposed to a border, signifies a space of transitional authority characterised by opportunity. The pressing questions are, of course, opportunity for what and for whom.…”

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“…From this vantage point, the oceans present the potential to approach the human-environment relation in new ways, perhaps in forms that differ from the violent practices of enclosure that have dominated terrestrial spaces (see, e.g., Fairbanks et al 2017). As Steinberg (2018) indicates, a frontier, as opposed to a border, signifies a space of transitional authority characterised by opportunity. The pressing questions are, of course, opportunity for what and for whom.…”

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Ocean frontiers: epistemologies, jurisdictions, commodifications

Havice¹,

Zalik²

2018

Int Social Sci J

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The dynamic and unfolding relationship between the oceans and humans underwrites a general narrative of oceans in ‘crisis’ and the need for new governance and regulatory frameworks to attend to it. As concerns surrounding marine space have proliferated, sovereignty, territory and property in the oceans remain imprecise and subject to controversy, presenting challenges (and opportunities) for oceans governance. This special issue employs the concept of ocean frontiers as a pivot into these concerns because of the eroding, but still frequent, portrayal of the oceans as a planetary space separate from humans and because the concept offers entry points for navigating the unfolding dimensions of ocean conservation and exploitation. Deducing from the eight contributions from the special issue, we develop four inter‐related arguments. First, while ocean frontiers pre‐exist the epistemological, jurisdictional and commodification categories that we conceptualize in this editorial introduction, we find that these categories, which may be understood as intersecting in ocean regimes, play central roles in closing the spatial and socially‐constituted ocean frontier, bringing it closer to human purview. Second, the materiality of oceans – their mobile and volumetric elements ‐ influences all of these emerging and intersecting oceanic processes. Third, contributing authors have developed innovative methodological approaches to the study of the oceans, revealing oceans not as ‘siteless’, but multi‐sited, and demonstrating that the social sciences are well suited methodologically to bring unfolding ocean processes into view. Last but not least, drawing from the insights set out by the contributors, we argue for ongoing interdisciplinary social (and natural) science research on the oceans as they and human‐ocean relations unfold in a period of dramatic change.

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Ocean frontiers: epistemologies, jurisdictions, commodifications

Havice¹,

Zalik²

2018

Int Social Sci J

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“…The imaginary offers “a zone of not yet – not yet mapped, ‘not yet’ regulated” (Tsing , p.5100), and of spaces of potentiality (Lehman ). Such narratives of opening are inevitably coupled with the spectre of closure through a range of mechanisms, including “the introduction of the frontier into scientific models and systems of categorization” (Steinberg , p.1). This paper is concerned with placing science and scientists as central to efforts to know oceans, and therefore render them legible for governance in the interest of progress.…”

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Science, scale and the frontier of governing mobile marine species

Havice¹,

Campbell²,

Braun³

2018

Int Social Sci J

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Marine turtles have complex life histories and make expansive migrations over their long lifetimes, often through multiple states’ exclusive economic zones and areas beyond national jurisdiction. This complexity makes it difficult to “know” marine turtles and presents jurisdictional mismatches for existing state and inter‐state bodies that govern turtles. This paper examines how scientists tasked with assessing marine turtles for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species have used their scientific expertise to make marine turtles legible for governance, including by rescaling the Red List assessment process to include both global and regional levels. We find that in this rescaling project, marine turtle scientists have created two new objects of governance: spatially bounded “regional management units” and the scientists themselves, who have begun to sort themselves and their work around the new spatial units in the interest of generating progress in ocean conservation. More broadly, the story of the IUCN Red List process for sea turtles turns attention to the work of science and scientists in making oceans resources legible, and therefore governable, even when they defy the boundaries of state‐led regulatory bodies or jurisdictional spaces.

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“…Frontier describes a recently “discovered” or newly reconceived space of sociocultural, environmental and/or economic potential; it is often employed as a metaphor by those seeking to catalyse (or critique) changes in actors, institutions, norms, and relationships associated with that space (Blomley ; Steinberg ). Frontier applies to the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the way that they are currently posited as ripe for developing, testing, and implementing new or expanded governance arrangements for ocean conservation and development.…”

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“…Frontier describes a recently "discovered" or newly reconceived space of sociocultural, environmental and/or economic potential; it is often employed as a metaphor by those seeking to catalyse (or critique) changes in actors, institutions, norms, and relationships associated with that space (Blomley 2003;Steinberg 2018). Frontier applies to the Exclusive Economic Dr Jennifer Silver (corresponding author) is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph.…”

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