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SUMMARY:Sea Change - Surabhi Ranganathan (Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Giovanni Mantilla
DESCRIPTION:The paper makes both descriptive and ironic use of its title p
 hrase. It argues that there has been a sea change in the legal imaginary o
 f the ocean\; yet no sea change in the type of interests that both the old
  law and the new privileged. The new law of the sea echoes the old in cont
 inuing to group some uses of the (common areas of the) sea\, including fis
 hing\, under label of ‘freedom’. This freedom has a different meaning\
 , it is not the natural and prior freedom that informed the Grotian imagin
 ary\, but a delimited legal institution\, in which rights to access and us
 e the sea are specifically and unevenly distributed. It emerged via moment
 s of contestation over the ordering of the ocean in mid- and late-twentiet
 h century\, and by the retrenchment of more radical proposals for ordering
  the sea and redistributing its benefits. The paper further suggests that 
 recognising this is important in view of a third sense in which we might u
 nderstand ‘sea change’ – the ongoing overheating\, acidification\, p
 ollution and biodiversity extinctions that threaten the ocean today.
LOCATION: Room SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Road
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