Marine Political Ecology Collective

About

As a collective we do not accept competition as the cardinal rule of evolutionary relations nor the social Darwinism built on this premise.

We begin with the thesis that ecological natures are not an assemblage of individuated bodies, variables, or systems but instead emerge from co-evolution, symbiosis, kin-relations, and mutual aid. In this way, our attendance to difference is not one of species counting or discretized genetic resources that align with arboreal hierarchies of Linnaean taxonomies and speciesisms.

This reorients our commitments towards a recognition of, and obligation to, collective liberation.

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These ideas form our research praxis.

Our foci include marine resource extraction, exploitation of human and non-human resources and labor, the ecological disaster of biodiversity loss and climate chaos, within systems of racialized exploitation, capital accumulation, imperialism, and colonization.

Our geographical study areas include Oceania, Java Sea, the High Seas, and other submerged regions and benthic realms.

The collective