edited by Kimberley Peters, Philip Steinberg, and Elaine Stratford.
New York :
Rowman & Littlefield International,
[2018]
xvii, 284 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm.
Geopolitical bodies, material worlds
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Earth : a grain of sand against a world of territory : experiences of sand and sandscapes in China / Marijn Nieuwenhuis -- Air : spacing the atmosphere : the politics of territorialising air / Weiqiang Lin -- Water : order and the offshore : the territories of deep-water oil production / Jon Phillips -- Fire : pyropolitics for a planet of fire / Nigel Clark -- Mudflats : fluid terrain : climate contestations in the Bolivian highlands / Clayton Whitt -- Floodplains : where sheets of water intersect : infrastructural culture : from flooding to hydro-power in Winnipeg, Manitoba / Stephanie C. Kane -- Cities : mare-magnum : urbanisation of land and sea / Ross Exo Adams -- Ice : placing territory on ice : militarisation, measurement, and murder in the high Arctic / Johanne Bruun and Philip Steinberg -- Bodies : the body of the drowned : convicts and shipwrecks / Elaine Stratford and Thérèse Murray -- Boats : settler colonial territorial imaginaries : maritime mobilities and the "tow-backs" of asylum seekers / Kate Coddington -- Shores : sharks, nets, and more-than-human territory in eastern Australia / Leah Gibbs -- Seabeds : sub-marine territory : living and working on the seafloor during the Sealab II experiment / Rachael Squire.
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Provides a focus on the planet's elements, environments, and edges, to extend our understanding of territory to the dynamic, contentious spaces of contemporary politics.