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Mads Barbesgaard

Biträdande universitetslektor

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Awash with contradiction : Capital, ocean space and the logics of the Blue Economy Paradigm

Författare

  • Felix Mallin
  • Mads Barbesgaard

Summary, in English

Over the course of the past decade, the political economy of global ocean space has entered into a process of significant transformation. In this context, multilateral, corporate and financial attention dedicated to so-called ‘blue growth’ and ‘blue economy’ schemes has been extraordinary; consequentially spawning critical inquiries into the origins and motives behind these initiatives. Offering different analytical interpretations of contemporary blue economy politics, as well as their origins and effects, geographers have entered this debate with a strong focus on institutional discourses and policy agendas. Building on critical political economy of ocean space literatures, this paper emphasises instead the role of capital in appropriating and re-organising the seas according to its own needs. Our primary aim is to elucidate the territorial-economic tensions and geopolitical antagonisms that drive current trends by historicising the emergence of the Blue Economy Paradigm (BEP). The paper shows that a Procrustean political geography of ocean space increasingly poses a barrier to capitalist expansion.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

Publiceringsår

2020-07

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

121-132

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Geoforum

Volym

113

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Globalization Studies
  • Economic Geography

Nyckelord

  • Deep-sea mining (DSM)
  • Geopolitics
  • Maritime geography
  • Ocean grabbing
  • Political economy
  • UNCLOS

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0016-7185