Project description
Understanding the international hegemonic discourse taking shape on environmental crime at sea
How do discourses in the cultural and scientific realms cocreate ideas underpinning the international regulations and policy negotiations on environmental crime and harm at sea? This is one of the questions the ERC-funded OCN project seeks to answer by investigating narratives on environmental crime at sea from an interdisciplinary perspective. To do this, the project will analyse a set of contemporary literary and filmic narratives about environmental damage at sea and compare them with various legal and scientific discourses made by experts from an interdisciplinary point of view. The focus will be the exploitation of biological and mineral marine resources; toxic waste and plastic dumping; and harmful climate change effects on oceanic ecosystems.
Objective
With the latest international Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 1982), narratives on environmental crimes and harms at sea have changed their views of ocean governance, sustainability, and human rights, and are now shaping an international, hegemonic discourse. A growing, under-examined corpus of contemporary literary and filmic narratives discusses environmental criminality at sea as subject to contested international and state jurisdiction, harmful to oceanic sustainability and threatening human rights, and uncertainly poised between crime and harm. Literature and film are only part of the discourse around environmental criminality at sea, since policymakers, lawyers and scientists are its main producers. How do discourses in the cultural and scientific realms co-create conceptions, arguments and ideas that underpin the actual international regulations and policy negotiations around environmental crime and harm at sea? OCN responds to this new challenge with three objectives: 1) to analyze the narratives around environmental crime and harm at sea in a new, hitherto unexamined corpus of post-1982 literature and film; 2) to conduct a novel narrative analysis of environmental sea crime and harm discourses aiming for dissemination and governance from the perspective of oceanography, green criminology, and political ecology; 3) to produce a polyhedral assessment of hegemonic, international discourse on environmental crime and harm at sea today. OCN examines a post-1982 corpus of literary, filmic and expert narratives dealing with three areas of harm and crime: a) exploitation of biological and mineral marine resources; b) toxic waste and plastic dumping; c) harmful climate-change effects on oceanic ecosystems. The project tests an interdisciplinary analysis of discursive practices to provide a fresher, critical view of hegemonic, international environmental crime discourses at sea, which determine definitions of criminality and aim to safeguard the future sustainability of our oceans.
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- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
- social sciences law criminology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences oceanography
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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07122 PALMA DE MALLORCA
Spain
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