Genocide and the Ocean

Law, History and Genocidal Realities Beyond Borders and Beneath Waves
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-07887-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

This collection explores the intricate legal, conceptual, and material relationship between genocide and the ocean. Traversing a wide range of topics, it brings into conversation numerous legal regimes that are too rarely considered in relation to one another–including, but not limited to, the international legal regime on genocide, international human rights and refugee law, the law of the sea, international cultural heritage law and environmental law, the law of self-determination, and the criminality of maritime violence.

Recognising that the relationship between genocide and the ocean exceeds what law alone can comprehensively capture through its own internal logic, contributors move beyond traditional doctrinal analysis to engage interdisciplinary perspectives. These include insights from criminology, geography/environmental science, moral/political philosophy, history, and international relations theory. Bringing together legal scholars and practitioners from across Europe, Latin America, Asia and the United States, this collection reflects both disciplinary and geographic diversity.

By bridging legal analysis with broader critical inquiry, this volume will be of interest to academics, researchers, and policymakers working in the areas of International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Environmental Law, International Refugee Law, International Humanitarian Law, Legal History and the Law of the Sea.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kapogianni, Vicky

Loefflad, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales See-, Luft- und Weltraumrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Why Genocide and the Ocean?  Chapter 1 - Rediscovering the Canary Islands: Maritime Notes Towards a New Historical Geography of Genocide  Chapter 2 - Archipelagic Selves and the Erosion of Oceanic Legal Orders: Raphael Lemkin in Colonial Indonesia  Chapter 3 - Reframing Cultural Heritage Law for African and Native Nations: Decolonial Justice in the Wake of Colonial Maritime Violence  Chapter 4 - Underwater Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: Emerging Debates on Ecocide  Chapter 5 - Prosecuting Marine Ecocide as Genocide: Reasons, Opportunities, and Challenges  Chapter 6 - From Safe Havens to Death Traps: The EU’s Migration Externalisation and the Processual and Plastic Stages of Genocide  Chapter 7 - Existence and Survival: Sea-Level Rise, Self-Determination, and the Law of Genocide

Über Autor(innen)

Vicky Kapogianni is a Lecturer in EU and International Law and Senior Research Associate at the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law, a Centre of the Faculty of Law, University of Johannesburg.

Eric Loefflad is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent, UK.