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The Social Construction of the Ocean (Cambridge Studies in International Relations (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Social Construction of the OceanDiscussing the changing uses, regulations and representation of the sea from 1450 to now.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 25 October 2001
- Format: Paperback 258 pages
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- Categories: International Relations | Geopolitics | Property & Real Estate | Oceanography (seas) | Geography
- ISBN 13: 9780521010573 ISBN 10: 0521010578
- Sales rank: 452,579
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Full description for The Social Construction of the Ocean
Steinberg presents a history of the uses, regulations and representation of the world-ocean, from approximately 1450 through the present. This history is told through a 'territorial political economy' lens, borrowing from world-systems theory, economic-geographic studies of the spatiality of capitalism, political-geographic work on the history of territoriality, and post-structural work on social conflict in the production of space. Just as the modern era has been characterized by a conflicting set of dynamic and contested spatiality on land, so has it been characterized by a conflicting set of spatial functions at sea. Evidence is marshaled from legal texts, literary and artistic creations, cartographic representations, advertisements, commercial and military history, and policy debates. The book concludes by considering how lessons learned from the history of the ocean may be applied to emerging spaces, such as cyberspace, where there is a similarly problematic 'fit' between social processes and the institutions of state governance.
