Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
The Production of Space Through Land Reclamation
This dissertation argues that land reclamation has become geopolitical.Land reclamation has added a new dimension to internationalrelations and this dimension cannot be ignored, for it touchesupon our fundamental understanding of state territory and spatialpractice. Drawing on Stuart Elden and Henri Lefebvre, territory isunderstood as a set of political technologies that produce differentdimensions of our modern conception of territorial space. Landreclamation operates as such a territorial technology and alters ourunderstanding of maritime space in contemporary geopolitics andinternational law. Two case studies will explicate this development.The first study will investigate coastal reclamation in Singapore andits effects for the city-state’s international relations. The second studywill analyse Chinese reclamation works in the disputed region of theSouth China Sea. Both investigations will approach these activitieswith a focus on the United Nations Convention on the Law of theSea as the international juridical space of territory. In conclusion,this dissertation claims that the material and conceptual productionof space triggered by advancements in land reclamation technologyare reshaping territorial state practice and the corresponding legalframework of maritime space.
The Production of Space Through Land Reclamation
This dissertation argues that land reclamation has become geopolitical.Land reclamation has added a new dimension to internationalrelations and this dimension cannot be ignored, for it touchesupon our fundamental understanding of state territory and spatialpractice. Drawing on Stuart Elden and Henri Lefebvre, territory isunderstood as a set of political technologies that produce differentdimensions of our modern conception of territorial space. Landreclamation operates as such a territorial technology and alters ourunderstanding of maritime space in contemporary geopolitics andinternational law. Two case studies will explicate this development.The first study will investigate coastal reclamation in Singapore andits effects for the city-state’s international relations. The second studywill analyse Chinese reclamation works in the disputed region of theSouth China Sea. Both investigations will approach these activitieswith a focus on the United Nations Convention on the Law of theSea as the international juridical space of territory. In conclusion,this dissertation claims that the material and conceptual productionof space triggered by advancements in land reclamation technologyare reshaping territorial state practice and the corresponding legalframework of maritime space.
The Production of Space Through Land Reclamation
Kern, Niclas (Autor:in)
31.08.2019
Studies in Social and Political Thought; Vol. 29 (2019): Studies in Social and Political Thought ; 45-73 ; 2398-3884 ; 1467-2219
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
710
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