Flag planting and finger pointing: The Law of the Sea,the Arctic and the political geographies of the outer continental shelf |
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| Authors: | Klaus Dodds |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of History, The Florida State University, 401 Bellamy Bldg., Tallahassee, FL 32306-2200, USA;2. Department of Tourism Research and Northern Studies, The Arctic University of Norway, Kirkenes Campus, N-9915 Kirkenes, Norway;3. Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave. W., Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5, Canada;1. Department of Environmental Studies, Eckerd College, 4200 54th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33711, USA;2. Duke University Marine Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, 135 Duke Marine Lab Rd., Beaufort, NC, USA;3. Department of Geography, Rutgers University, 54 Joyce Kilmer Drive, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA;4. Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, 55 Dudley Rd., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA;1. School of Planning & Geography, Cardiff University, United Kingdom;2. Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Westminster, United Kingdom;3. Social, Economic & Geographical Sciences, James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | The planting of a Russian flag at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean in the summer of 2007 precipitated a series of policy and media-level reactions including expressions of outrage and discontent. This paper develops an analysis of the work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CCLS) and the different strategies used by coastal states to press ‘claims’ to outer continental shelf (OCS). The agency of Arctic ‘coastal states’ such as Canada, Norway and Russia is noteworthy but others including the European Union and indigenous peoples have also raised concerns about the behaviour of these geographically proximate actors. Finally, I consider other ways of looking at the Arctic as a circumpolar space and the challenges that are held to be facing the region in the present and future. |
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