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II. THE OCEAN





... AS COMMONS, or OFFSHORING THE FUTURE

Seminar 04

31 JAN 24
  •  Campling, Liam, and Alejandro Colas. Selections from Chapter 4, “Appropriation.” In Capitalism and The Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World, 169-185. Brooklyn: Verso Books, 2021.  

  • Carmine, Gabrielle, Juan Mayorga, Nathan A. Miller, Jaeyoon Park, Patrick N. Halpin, Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, Henrik Österblom, Enric Sala, and Jennifer Jacquet. “Who Is the High Seas Fishing Industry?” One Earth 3, no. 6 (December 18, 2020): 730–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.11.017.

  •  Drakopulos, Lauren, Jennifer J. Silver, Eric Nost, Noella Gray, and Roberta Hawkins. “Making Global Oceans Governance in/Visible  with Smart Earth: The Case of Global Fishing Watch.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, July 14, 2022, 25148486221111786. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221111786.  

  • Kroodsma, David A., Juan Mayorga, Timothy Hochberg, Nathan A. Miller, Kristina Boerder, Francesco Ferretti, Alex Wilson, et al. “Tracking the Global Footprint of Fisheries.” Science 359, no. 6378 (February 23, 2018): 904–8. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao5646.    

  • Miller, Nathan A., Aaron Roan, Timothy Hochberg, John Amos, and David A. Kroodsma. “Identifying Global Patterns of Transshipment Behavior.” Frontiers in Marine Science 5 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00240.  

  •  Paolo, Fernando, David Kroodsma, Jennifer Raynor, Tim Hochberg, Pete Davis, Jesse Cleary, Luca Marsaglia, Sara Orofino, Christian Thomas, and Patrick Halpin. “Satellite Mapping Reveals Extensive Industrial Activity at Sea.” Nature 625, no. 7993 (January 2024): 85–91. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06825-8

  •   Park, Jaeyoon, Jennifer Van Osdel, Joanna Turner, Courtney M. Farthing, Nathan A. Miller, Hannah L. Linder, Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, Gabrielle Carmine, and David A. Kroodsma. “Tracking Elusive and Shifting Identities of the Global Fishing Fleet.” Science Advances 9, no. 3 (January 18, 2023): eabp8200. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abp8200.  

  • Seto, Katherine L., Nathan A. Miller, David Kroodsma, Quentin Hanich, Masanori Miyahara, Rui Saito, Kristina Boerder, Masaki Tsuda, Yoshioki Oozeki, and Osvaldo Urrutia S. “Fishing through the Cracks: The Unregulated Nature of Global Squid Fisheries.” Science Advances 9, no. 10 (March 10, 2023): eadd8125. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add8125.  

Projects





... AS FRONTIER, or THE GEOPOLITICAL LIFE OF THE ICE EDGE

Seminar 05

07 FEB 24
  •  Bay-Larsen, Ingrid, T. G. Bjørndal, and E. A. T. Hermansen. “Mapping Ice in the Norwegian Arctic – on the Edge between Science and Policy.” Landscape Research 46, no. 2 (February 17, 2021): 167–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2020.1740664.  


  • Le Billon, Philippe, and Berit Kristoffersen. “Just Cuts for Fossil Fuels? Supply-Side Carbon Constraints and Energy Transition.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52, no. 6 (September 1, 2020): 1072–92. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18816702.  

  • Steinberg, Philip, and Berit Kristoffersen. “‘The Ice Edge Is Lost … Nature Moved It’: Mapping Ice as State Practice in the Canadian and Norwegian North.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 42, no. 4 (2017): 625–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12184.  

  • Steinberg, Philip E., Berit Kristoffersen, and Kristen L. Shake. “Edges and Flows: Exploring Legal Materialities and Biophysical Politics of Sea Ice.” In Blue Legalities, edited by Irus Braverman and Elizabeth R. Johnson, 85–106. The Life and Laws of the Sea. Duke University Press, 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1131dk7.7.  

  • Tømmerbakke, From Siri Gulliksen. “The Struggle Over the Ice Edge Decides the Future of Norway’s Oil.” High North News. Accessed January 26, 2023. https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/struggle-over-ice-edge-decides-future-norways-oil.   

  • Watts, Michael John. “Hyper-Extractivism and the Global Oil Assemblage.” In Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance, edited by Judith Shapiro and John-Andrew McNeish, 207–48. Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. 

  • *Guest Lecture*

  • Prof. Berit Kristoffersen, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø)

  • Projects

Norwegian Offshore Directorate

- Homepage

- “FactMaps” showing locations of petroleum-related activities

- Seabed Minerals

- Deep Sea Survey Map

- Mongabay reporting on mining plans