Cartography and geopolitics in the Arctic region
This paper discusses the relationship between geography and politics; and more specifically, the relationship between sovereign claims and cartography. I introduce the term 'cartopolitics' to describe a particular way of making space real and corresponding with politics that defines contem...
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ftzbwkiel:oai:econstor.eu:10419/44619 2024-01-07T09:41:23+01:00 Cartography and geopolitics in the Arctic region Strandsbjerg, Jeppe 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/44619 eng eng Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) Series: DIIS Working Paper No. 2010:20 urn:isbn:978-87-7605-401-4 gbv-ppn:637349717 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/44619 http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen ddc:330 doc-type:workingPaper 2010 ftzbwkiel 2023-12-11T00:42:10Z This paper discusses the relationship between geography and politics; and more specifically, the relationship between sovereign claims and cartography. I introduce the term 'cartopolitics' to describe a particular way of making space real and corresponding with politics that defines contemporary bordering practices in the Arctic region. The paper argues that too often boundary studies assume that socio-political space arises as a result of boundary practices. In contrast, this paper proceeds from a notion that space should precede boundaries in the analysis because, unless space is taken as a natural given and constant background, its 'construction' conditions how boundaries can be established in the first place. In sequence, I argue how the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea builds on - and requires - a particular spatiality epitomised by so-called modern cartography. This has implications for the way in which sovereignty over space is transferred from a political to a scientific domain, and essentially, it tends to mask the constructed nature of the spatiality given objectivity through the law of the sea. Report Arctic Law of the Sea EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW) Arctic |
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This paper discusses the relationship between geography and politics; and more specifically, the relationship between sovereign claims and cartography. I introduce the term 'cartopolitics' to describe a particular way of making space real and corresponding with politics that defines contemporary bordering practices in the Arctic region. The paper argues that too often boundary studies assume that socio-political space arises as a result of boundary practices. In contrast, this paper proceeds from a notion that space should precede boundaries in the analysis because, unless space is taken as a natural given and constant background, its 'construction' conditions how boundaries can be established in the first place. In sequence, I argue how the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea builds on - and requires - a particular spatiality epitomised by so-called modern cartography. This has implications for the way in which sovereignty over space is transferred from a political to a scientific domain, and essentially, it tends to mask the constructed nature of the spatiality given objectivity through the law of the sea. |
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Cartography and geopolitics in the Arctic region |
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Cartography and geopolitics in the Arctic region |
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Cartography and geopolitics in the Arctic region |
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Cartography and geopolitics in the Arctic region |
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Cartography and geopolitics in the Arctic region |
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cartography and geopolitics in the arctic region |
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Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) |
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