Spilhaus Projection from Github
POLSH 278: The Earth: Ethics, Politics and Economics from an Oceanic Point of View
T. Donahue-Ochoa
Week 2 (Sept 8): The World Ocean as Organism?
Does the Ocean Think? (video)
Rachel Carson, “The Pattern of the Surface” The Sea Around Us, Chapter 8
Rachel Carson, “The Global Thermostat” The Sea Around Us, Chapter 20
Week 3 (Sept 17): River Basins as Organisms? Water Systems?
Introduction to Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv47wfn1.6
Mní Wiconi: Water is [More than] Life
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctvr695pq.12
Lindsay Day et al, “The Legacy Will be the Change: Reconciling How we Live with and Relate to Water,” International Indigenous Policy Journal 11 (2020)
Week 4 (Sept 24): Frameworks for Oceans: Regions and Identities
Epeli Hau’ofa, “The Ocean in US,” Contemporary Pacific 10 (1998): 392-410
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23706895
Fahad Ahmed Bishara, “No country but the ocean”: Reading International Law from the Deck of an Indian Ocean Dhow, ca. 1900,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 60 (2018): 338-366
Nicole Roberts, “Caribbean Identity: An Hispanic American Perspective,” Journal of Caribbean Literatures 4 (2007): 29-49
Optional: So you’d like to know more about Hau’ofa’s idea of Oceania, the region…
Epeli Hau’ofa, “Our Sea of Islands,” Contemporary Pacific 6 (1994): 148-161
Week 5 (Oct 1): Oceans and Regional Connections
Barbara Watson Andaya, “Oceans Unbounded: Transversing Asia across "Area Studies," Journal of Asian Studies 65 (2006): 669-690
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25076125
Birgit Däwes, “THE OCEANIC IMAGINATION: CANADIAN AND AUSTRALIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO A TRANS-INDIGENOUS METHODOLOGY,” Canadian Journal of Native Studies 34 (2014): 65-84
Klaus-John Dodds, “Creating a Strategic Crisis out of a Communist Drama? Argentine and South African Geo-graphs of the South Atlantic,” European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 56 (1994): 33-54
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25675616
Week 6 (October 8): Ocean Frameworks--And Animal Impacts on Them
Edward R. Slack, Jr, “Orientalizing New Spain: Perspectives on Asian Influence in Colonial Mexico,” Análisis 15 (2012): 97-127
Jerry H. Bentley, “Sea and Ocean Basins as Frameworks of Historical Analysis,” Geographical Review 89 (1999): 215-224
https://www.jstor.org/stable/216087
Alison Rieser, “Clupea liberum: Hugo Grotius, Free Seas, and the Political Biology of Herring,” in Blue Legalities: The Life and Laws of the Sea, ed. Irus Braverman and Elizabeth Johnson (Duke UP, 2019):
Optional: Stacy Alaimo, “ADEQUATE IMAGINARIES FOR ANTHROPOCENE SEAS,” in Blue Legalities: The Life and Laws of the Sea
FALL BREAK
Week 7 (Oct 22) : Ocean Frameworks and Ocean Concepts
The Promise of Ocean History for Environmental History.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44308578
NATURE/CULTURE/SEAWATER: Theory Machines, Anthropology, Oceanization. Concentrate on pp. 94-103
The Ecosystem Approach in Ocean Planning and Governance: Perspectives from Europe and Beyond.
Week 8 (Oct 29): Oceanic Concepts and Ocean Frameworks
Optional:
Oceania as Peril and Promise: Towards Theorizing a Worlded Vision of Transpacific Ecopoetics.
Week 9 (Nov 5): Ethics and Laws of Oceans: Many Perspectives
Tuba Azeem, “Muslims’ Share of the Waves: Law, War, and Tradition,” Policy Perspectives (2020): Read pp. 67-75 ONLY
Carl Safina, “Launching a Sea Ethic.” Wild Earth 12 (2003)
Susan Power Bratton, “Thinking Like a MacKerel: Rachel Carson's Under the Sea-Wind As a Source for a Trans-Ecotonal Sea Ethic.” Ethics and the Environment (2004): Read pp. 5-20 ONLY
Aldo Leopold, “The Land Ethic” in Environmental Ethics: An Anthology, ed Andrew Light and Holmes Rolston (Blackwell, 2003): Read pp. 38-45 ONLY
Week 10 (Nov 12): Politics and Laws of Oceans
Philip Steinberg, LINES OF DIVISION, LINES OF CONNECTION: STEWARDSHIP IN THE WORLD OCEAN. Geographical Review 89 (1999): 254-264
Cara Nine, “Rights to the Oceans: Foundational Arguments Reconsidered,” Journal of Applied Philosophy (2019), READ pp. 6-13 ONLY
Robin Craig, “Climate Change and Common but Differentiated Responsibilities for the Ocean,” Carbon and Climate Law Review 11 (2017), READ pp. 325-332 ONLY
Optional:
Forget Ocean Front Property, We Want Ocean Real Estate! https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.haverford.edu/wpsa/docview/43272771/D90E93A87DBC4932PQ/2?accountid=11321.
Week 11 (Nov 19): Rivers as Builders of Regions and Nations
Lili Song, “To Be or Not to Be: On the Pathos of Chinese Environmental Writing about the Yellow River,” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2014)
Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted, Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building: The Mississippi and the Volga (Berghahn, 2015)
Ch. 2: Rivers as Nation-Builders
Ch. 3: Rivers and Modernization
THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 12 (Dec 3): Sharing: River Basins and Water Systems
Emma Norman et al, “Introduction,” in Norman et al (eds.) Water without Borders? Canada, the United States, and Shared Waters (UToronto Press, 2013), READ pp. 3-16 ONLY
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5hjtxr.7
Shaul Cohen and David Frank, “Innovative Approaches to Territorial Disputes: Using Principles of Riparian Conflict Management,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 99 (2009): 948-955
Ludwik Teclaff, “Evolution of the River Basin Concept in National and International Water Law,” Natural Resources Journal 33 (1996): 359-391
Week 13 (Dec 10): Responsibility for Rivers: What Does the Water Think of Us?
Jerome Whittington, “Anthropogenic Rivers,” Anthropogenic Rivers (Cornell UP, 2018), pp. 183-219
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt21h4v7p
Juttna Deffner and Peter Hasse, “The Societal Relevance of River Restoration,” Ecology and Society 23 (2018): 35-50
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26796874
Additional Resources:
Week 13
Challenges on the Ocean and the Future of the Law of the Sea: Environment, Security and Human Rights. https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.haverford.edu/wpsa/docview/2162995518/3112EE4FF8554E5BPQ/10?accountid=11321.
“No country but the ocean”: Reading International Law from the Deck of an Indian Ocean Dhow, ca. 1900. file:///Users/jackweinstein/Google%20Drive/Bishara.pdf
Achieving Sustainability in the Context of the Blue Economy. (check out the Blue Economy concept) https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.haverford.edu/stable/pdf/j.ctvgc60f0.11.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_search_gsv2%252Fcontrol&refreqid=excelsior%3A070598915dd1b60e3286302975fd098d.
In The Blue Economy Handbook of the Indian Ocean Region
NATURE/CULTURE/SEAWATER: Theory Machines, Anthropology, Oceanization. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.haverford.edu/stable/pdf/j.ctt1dr36n0.12.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_search_gsv2%252Fcontrol&refreqid=excelsior%3A5f9f29796e0c3bcc4e9b81e0bc35f2be.
People and the Ocean 3.0: A NEW NARRATIVE WITH TRANSFORMATIVE BENEFITS. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.haverford.edu/stable/pdf/j.ctvqc6gcq.12.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_search_gsv2%252Fcontrol&refreqid=excelsior%3A780d2f4fc979579862d3f5aa0d2b5554.
The Ecosystem Approach in Ocean Planning and Governance: Perspectives from Europe and Beyond. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.haverford.edu/stable/10.1163/j.ctvrxk2v2.
Helen M. Rozwadowski
The Spaces In Between: Science, Ocean, Empire. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.haverford.edu/stable/pdf/10.1086/676571.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_search_gsv2%252Fcontrol&refreqid=excelsior%3A29b87d91b581eca815c592f3473a58d8.
Ocean's Depths. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.haverford.edu/stable/pdf/25764467.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_search_gsv2%252Fcontrol&refreqid=excelsior%3Abe6d80dd767017169ee0c36e6ea8b9b0.
The Promise of Ocean History for Environmental History. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.haverford.edu/stable/pdf/44308578.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_search_gsv2%252Fcontrol&refreqid=excelsior%3Ae3f4f8de5fc1274f3a29ee04f6acea4c.
RIVERS
To Be or Not to Be: On the Pathos of Chinese Environmental Writing about the Yellow River
Rivers of the Anthropocene
5: Rivers, Scholars, and Society
3: Political Ecology in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of Irrigation Management in the Blue Nile Basin
8: Anthropocene World/Anthropocene Waters: A Historical examination of Ideas and Agency
Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building
2: Rivers as Nation-Builders
3: Rivers and Modernization
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.haverford.edu/stable/j.ctt9qd37p.8?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania
7: Waters of Destruction: Mythical Creatures, Boiling Pots and Tourist Encounters at the Wailuku River in Hilo, Hawai’i
Anthropogenic Rivers
To Be or Not to Be: On the Pathos of Chinese Environmental Writing about the Yellow River
The Societal Relevance of River Restoration
Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin
Environmental Imaginaries and River Futures
“Water Is Life” Movement
Mní Wičoni — Water is Alive: Indigenous Youth Water Protectors Rekindle Nonviolent Direct Action in Corporate America
Anishinaabe-Kwewag Mothers, the Environment, and Maternal Discourse on Responsibilities to Aki (Earth) and Nibi (Water): Anishinaabe: Kwewag Maternal Environmental Activism
To Be a Water Protector: Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers by Winona LaDuke
Mní Wiconi: Water is [More than] Life
Fighting for Our Lives: #NODAPL in Historical Context
Water Protectors
Rights of Nature Movement
Lake Erie
Creating Legal Rights for rivers: Lessons from Australia, New Zealand, and India
Wild Rice/Manoomin
River Rights and the Rights of Rivers: The Case of Acheloos
Water without Borders? Canada, the United States, and Shared Waters
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.haverford.edu/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5hjtxr.
Innovative Approaches to Territorial Disputes: Using Principles of Riparian Conflict Management
Muslims’ Share of the Waves: Law, War, and Tradition
Evolution of the River Basin Concept in National and International Water Law
Spilhaus projection--work with that
Work on the contrast between oceans as highways of empire and oceans as places
Satoumi concept--seaculture, mariculture
Islander culture--how oceans connect indigenous peoples in N. America and Australasia
Evidence of a connection between Costa Rican and northern Colombia--pre-historic? Proving how
1900 Indian Ocean maritime legal culture
Blue Economy vs. Green Economy contrast and connection
Land ethic and sea ethic?
Rachel Carson’s three-book series on the ocean
Under the Sea Wind
The Sea Around Us
The Edge of the Sea