@techreport{Strandsbjerg2010Cartography,
abstract = {This paper discusses the relationship between geography and politics; and more specifically, the relationship between sovereign claims and cartography. I introduce the term 'cartopolitics' to describe a particular way of making space real and corresponding with politics that defines contemporary bordering practices in the Arctic region. The paper argues that too often boundary studies assume that socio-political space arises as a result of boundary practices. In contrast, this paper proceeds from a notion that space should precede boundaries in the analysis because, unless space is taken as a natural given and constant background, its 'construction' conditions how boundaries can be established in the first place. In sequence, I argue how the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea builds on - and requires - a particular spatiality epitomised by so-called modern cartography. This has implications for the way in which sovereignty over space is transferred from a political to a scientific domain, and essentially, it tends to mask the constructed nature of the spatiality given objectivity through the law of the sea.},
address = {Copenhagen},
author = {Jeppe Strandsbjerg},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
isbn = {978-87-7605-401-4},
keywords = {330},
language = {eng},
number = {2010:20},
publisher = {Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier},
title = {Cartography and geopolitics in the Arctic region},
type = {DIIS working paper},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/44619},
year = {2010}
}
