Seabed Mining Zine

by Marine Political Ecology Collective with special thanks to Anne Wolfgramm.

At the bottom of the Sea, with more than 200 m of water above, lies the benthic realm, a lively ecosystem of C worms, crabs, octopuses, and more. For a long time, people thought the seafloor was a vast, flat desert with little life. But now it is known to have great mountain ranges, bubbling, volcanoes, called, hydrothermal, see events and much of the floor is covered in use, made of dead plants and animals that float down from above as marine snow…

Download below: self-published in 2023 with crosswords, handmade prints, and tidbits about the deep.

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Jane Doe

Unblackboxing mediation in the digital mine

by Katherine Sammler and Lily House-Peters

As natural resource extraction moves into increasingly remote frontiers, rapidly proliferating technologies associated with digitization and automation are respatializing technical and environmental relations both on- and off-shore….

Read more here: Geoforum 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103745.

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Kauri and the Whale: Oceanic Matter and Meaning in New Zealand

by Katherine Sammler

The third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has stabilized many international disputes over ocean resources and boundaries. Yet, Aotearoa New Zealand has struggled with translating and implementing UNCLOS, as many in the country question the very division of territory and property along a land/sea binary…

Read more here: pp. 63-84 in Blue Legalities: The Law and Life of the Sea, edited by Irus Braverman and Elisabeth Johnson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 330 pp.

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The Deep Pacific: Island Governance and Seabed Mineral Development

by Katherine Sammler

Very little of the ocean’s depths have been explored in detail because of its immensity and the expense of operating in its extreme conditions. Yet, in the last few years global metal markets and technological advancements have made deep seabed resource extraction increasingly feasible. Seabed mining remains an experimental technology…

Read more here: pp 10-31 in Elaine Stratford’s edited volume, Island Geographies: Essays and Conversations . New York, NY: Routledge. 198 pp.

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