Blue Legalities

Irus Braverman is Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and author of Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink.Elizabeth R. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Human Geography at Durham University.

• Introduction. Blue Legalities: Governing More-Than-Human Oceans / Elizabeth R. Johnson and Irus Braverman  11. Solwara 1 and the Sessile Ones / Susan Reid  252. Held in Suspense: Mustard Gas Legalities in the Gotland Deep / Astrida Neimanis  453. Kauri and the Whale: Oceanic Matter and Meaning in New Zealand / Katherine G. Sammler  634. Edges and Flows: Exploring Legal Materialities and Biophysical Politics of Sea Ice / Philip E. Steinberg, Berit Kristoffersen, and Kristen L. Shake  855. Liquid Territory, Shifting Sands: Property, Sovereignty, and Space in Southeast Asia's Tristate Maritime Boundary Zone / Jennifer L. Gaynor  1076. Wave Law / Stefan Helmreich  1297. Robotic Life in the Deep Sea / Irus Braverman  1478. The Technopolitics of Ocean Sensing / Jessica Lehman  1659. The Hydra and the Leviathan: Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and the Militarized Seaspace / Elizabeth R. Johnson  18310. Clupea Liberum: Hugo Grotius, Free Seas, and the Political  Biology of Herring / Alison Rieser  20111. Whales and the Colonization of the Pacific Ocean / Zsofia Korosy  21912. The Sea Wolf and the Sovereign / Stephanie Jones  23713. Marine Microbiopolitics: Haunted Microbes before the Law / Astrid Schrader  25514. "Got Algae?": Putting Marine Life to Work for Sustainability / Amy Braun  27515. "Climate Engineering Doesn't Stop Ocean Acidification": Addressing Harms to Ocean Life in Geoengineering Imaginaries / Holly Jean Buck  295Afterword. Adequate Imaginaries for Anthropocene Seas / Stacy Alaimo  311Contributors  327Index  331

“Not a minute too early, the ‘blue turn’ finally takes pride of place in legal thinking. Blue Legalities balances the legal and the liquid in all their emanations. The contributions span from the oceanic depths of our planet to the glimmering surface of our limited comprehension, combining in an undeniably poetic whole, law, politics, science, anthropology, history, and philosophy amongst other epistemes. The feat of this book is diving headlong in the fathomless challenge of treating the material and the textual as one ontological ripple.” - Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, author of (Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere) “Elisabeth Mann Borgese, one of the architects of the first Law of the Sea conference, argued that any approach to the ocean must be inherently interdisciplinary. Irus Braverman and Elizabeth R. Johnson have fulfilled this claim with a wonderful interdisciplinary collection. Plumbing the depths of human and more-than-human life and law at sea, this volume is a welcome and timely contribution to the field of critical ocean studies.” - Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, author of (Allegories of the Anthropocene)