Ethics, Politics, Economics: Oceanic POV

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?


Pod Discussions


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


TAKURO Uehara et al, “Satoumi: Localism, Environmentalism, and the Development of an Oceanic Socionature,” People and Nature (2019): 435-441

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


Achieving Sustainability in the Context of the Blue Economy. (check out the Blue Economy concept) :https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvgc60f0.11

Ocean Thinking: The Work of Ocean Sciences, Scientists, and Technologies in Producing the Sea as Space.


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)




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.


The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.haverford.edu/stable/j.ctv11smqbv


Helen M. Rozwadowski




RIVERS

To Be or Not to Be: On the Pathos of Chinese Environmental Writing about the Yellow River



Rivers of the Anthropocene


Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building


Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania


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


Rights of Nature Movement


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