Christian Bueger

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Writing retreat in Gothenburg

🌏 Fantastic to complete an intensive writing retreat with my co-authors for our forthcoming ocean infrastructure book!

⚓ Tentatively titled ‘The Engineered Ocean: Global Politics in the Age of Infrastructure’, we investigate how infrastructures are reshaping our oceans and examine the complex challenges of controlling, regulating, securing, and understanding these systems.

➡️ We’re almost done writing and can’t wait to see it in print—and to learn what everyone thinks about our ideas!

🙏 Thanks to University of Gothenburg for hosting us.


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Searching for a new vision of ocean politics – lecture at University of Malta

The oceans have gained much world political attention. Yet, ocean debates continue to be structured by three visions – the oceans as closed, free or global commons. In a talk I will be giving at the Department of International Relations, University of Malta, I argue why these visions are limited. We have to ponder about alternatives. I outlines how thinking with ‘infrastructures’ can help us to go beyond territory, freedom, state-centrism and formal law, enables paying attention to technology and economics, and capturing global ocean politics in the age of the anthropocene.

The talk titled Ocean Infrastructures – Searching for a new vision for global ocean politics, takes place on November, 23rd (12.00-13.30), Boardroom 212, Old Humanities Building, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Arts.