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| Title: | | Cartography and geopolitics in the Arctic region  |
| Authors: | | Strandsbjerg, Jeppe |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | DIIS working paper 2010:20 |
| 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. |
| ISBN: | | 978-87-7605-401-4 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | DIIS Working Papers, Danish Institute for International Studies
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