The political uncommons
Subtitle: the cross-cultural logic of the global commons
By: Kathryn Milun
Series: Law, justice and power series; Law, justice, and power
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780754671398
Subjects: International cooperation; Global commons; Communal Natural resources; Natural resources; International Environmental law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: An emergent global commons: biodiversity; title: -a case study of how culture becomes law and nature becomes empty space; title: Terra Nullius, Res Nullius and Res Communis: a conceptual confusion of terms; title: Res Nullius; title: -the tragedy of the (modern global) commons: from Grotius and the high seas to the Internet; title: Covering Res that move; title: -theory and practice, whales and Res Divini Juris; title: The law of the sea extended vertically into the law of outer space, and the law of outer space reterritorializing the earth; title: The Western Sahara case; title: -genealogies captured by the census; title: Negotiations and the Mabo case: comparative epistemic imaginaries; title: Beyond empty space; title: -expanding the epistemological repertoire of the global commons through biogifural and technological imaginaries.