Ocean Governance (Beyond) Borders

2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-71321-7
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 289 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

This Open Access book “Ocean Governance (Beyond) Borders” is concerned with the persistence of bordering in ocean space, and the possibilities that might arise if we think beyond borders for modes of oceanic management, engaging the ocean’s fluid physicality and the mobile human and more-than-human life entangled with it. At a moment where ocean governance is a pressing topic amongst academics, policy makers, governments and non- governmental agencies alike, this book takes on one of the most overlooked but central devices underscoring many modes of oceanic management: the border.

Uniquely combining contemporary border scholarship with cutting edge ocean governance research this book tackles themes ranging from biodiversity conservation and asylum regulations to shipping management measures, tourism, and the growing blue economy. This edited volume hence explores varied bordering practices, whilst also addressing the ‘common-senseness’ with which bordering is deployed at sea, questioning – and problematising – its function and efficacy. Throughout 12 carefully curated chapters, authors ask: What borders are present in the seas and oceans, where and why? In doing this the book offers readers a simple provocation: Do we need borders? And can we govern differently?

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turner, Jennifer

Peters, Kimberley

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction - Closures: Ocean Governance Borders.- Chapter 2: Overdetermined by Territory? Governing the Ocean in Time, Matter, and Rhythm.- Chapter 3: Counter-mapping: A Morphology of Oscillating Margins in the Norwegian Sea .- Chapter 4: Bordered-In, Bordered-Out, and Overlapping Territorialities in Ocean Space: The Case of Fisheries.- Chapter 5: Contested Borders and Resolution in Planning Shared Marine Waters .- Chapter 6: Imaginaries: Oceanic Bordering with Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas.- Chapter 7: Can Borders in the Ocean Respond to Climate Change?.- Chapter 8: Bordering Marine Belonging: The Meanings, Mobilities and Materialities of Bioinvasion.- Chapter 9: Human-Shark Encounters beyond Borders: (Post-humanist) Attempts to Navigate a Maritime Contact Zone.- Chapter 10: Borders and Confinement in Seafarers’ Realities.- Chapter 11: Infrastructural Containment and the Politics of Migration in the Mediterranean Sea.- Chapter 12: Conclusion - Openings: Ocean Governance (Beyond) Borders.

Über Autor(innen)

Kimberley Peters leads a research group in Marine Governance at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), part of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Within this interdisciplinary research centre Kim uses spatial frames for understanding how watery spaces are organised and managed, and takes a critical approach to interrogating operations of power at sea.

Jennifer Turner leads the Cultural and Political Geography research group at Universität Trier and works predominantly on topics related to societal borders and boundaries. Jennifer first developed this interest in the context of the boundary between prison and society and now also focuses on non-prison spaces that may operate under similar conditions of spatial control and detriment, such as carceral seas.