Fache Elodie, Le Meur Pierre-Yves, Rodary Estienne. (2021). The new scramble for the Pacific : a frontier approach [special section]. Pacific Affairs, 1 (94), 57-122. ISSN 0030-851X.
Titre du document
The new scramble for the Pacific : a frontier approach [special section]
Année de publication
2021
Type de document
Article
Auteurs
Fache Elodie, Le Meur Pierre-Yves, Rodary Estienne
Over the last decades, the Pacific Ocean has been the locus of an unequalled rush for space and resources involving intertwined public and corporate interests, external powers, and Pacific Island states and territories. This rush is driven by three intersecting motivations aiming to: (1) exploit marine resources; (2) protect marine biodiversity and mitigate the effects of climate change; and (3) establish sovereignties over marine spaces. In this context, the fluidity of saltwater environments gives rise to specific issues of enforcement, control, and governance. This special issue examines these reconfigurations of/in the Pacific Ocean, stressing potentially conflicting frontier processes, in the light of a structuring tension between trends of ocean grabbing and ocean commoning.
