Recalcitrant Materialities of a Liminal Ocean: Deconstructing the ‘Arctic Nomos’
Published in 1950, Carl Schmitt’s Nomos of the Earth has been one of the most influential contributions in legal theory, illustrating inter alia the territorial conceptualization of the Eurocentric global legal order. While the Earth’s nomos has been largely hinged on the constructed ontology of a l...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/31576 2023-11-12T04:10:36+01:00 Recalcitrant Materialities of a Liminal Ocean: Deconstructing the ‘Arctic Nomos’ Tsiouvalas, Apostolos 2023-02-23 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31576 https://doi.org/10.1163/22116427_014010005 eng eng Brill The Yearbook of Polar Law Norges forskningsråd: 315163 https://brill.com/view/journals/yplo/14/1/article-p76_5.xml FRIDAID 2130569 doi:10.1163/22116427_014010005 1876-8814 2211-6427 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31576 openAccess Copyright 2023 The Author(s) Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed submittedVersion 2023 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1163/22116427_014010005 2023-10-18T23:07:50Z Published in 1950, Carl Schmitt’s Nomos of the Earth has been one of the most influential contributions in legal theory, illustrating inter alia the territorial conceptualization of the Eurocentric global legal order. While the Earth’s nomos has been largely hinged on the constructed ontology of a land-sea dichotomy and the appropriation and division of space through the establishment of sovereignty upon it, this article contends that the particular geomorphology of the Arctic seascape, the multiscalar dynamics of Arctic politics, and the rapid pace of change in the region render the Arctic spatial order rather intricate and may challenge the existing territorial application of state sovereignty. After critically deconstructing the process of territorialization of the Arctic Ocean, the article delves into three conceptual challenges – one ontological, one epistemological, and one technological respectively – pertinent to the juridical imaginary of the ‘Arctic nomos’ engraved by sovereignty, and seeks to expose the limits of the existing regime in place. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Yearbook of Polar Law University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Arctic Ocean The Yearbook of Polar Law Online 14 1 76 97 |
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Published in 1950, Carl Schmitt’s Nomos of the Earth has been one of the most influential contributions in legal theory, illustrating inter alia the territorial conceptualization of the Eurocentric global legal order. While the Earth’s nomos has been largely hinged on the constructed ontology of a land-sea dichotomy and the appropriation and division of space through the establishment of sovereignty upon it, this article contends that the particular geomorphology of the Arctic seascape, the multiscalar dynamics of Arctic politics, and the rapid pace of change in the region render the Arctic spatial order rather intricate and may challenge the existing territorial application of state sovereignty. After critically deconstructing the process of territorialization of the Arctic Ocean, the article delves into three conceptual challenges – one ontological, one epistemological, and one technological respectively – pertinent to the juridical imaginary of the ‘Arctic nomos’ engraved by sovereignty, and seeks to expose the limits of the existing regime in place. |
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Recalcitrant Materialities of a Liminal Ocean: Deconstructing the ‘Arctic Nomos’ |
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