This platform provides an online environment for expansive discussions on the potential subject and practices of ocean justice. Ocean justice is a response to both the scale of resource extractivism’s unrelenting draw–down on the seas, and the complicity and conservation failures of the ocean governance regime.
The site will feature curated content across the arts, activism, philosophy, more-than-human environmental humanities, sciences, ocean and critical environmental law, post-humanism, feminist, queer and de-colonising practices. If a creative intervention strikes a soniferous submarine chord that resonate with concepts of less harmful relations with the seas, less visible or emerging alter-imaginaries of the seas, or concepts of justice informed by the ocean… then it fits well here.
Ocean Justice is particularly interested in approaches to justice that are emerging in response to the changing material and social conditions associated with declining biodiversity and intensifying climate change impacts. How are we to imagine our relations with the transitioning ocean? What practices ought to be foregrounded to resist extractivism and honour the beauty and generosities of the seas? Despite increasing science and regulation the ocean conditions continue to decline. What are we missing? Which cultural matters need to be added to the change-mix
The site is managed on a volunteer basis and will grow and refresh organically within the space of available time. Please check in regularly, get in touch if you’d like to stay in touch, and send in your material if you think it fits well here.
