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Global and Maritime Studies

 
 

Recent Submissions

  • Trends in Modern Piracy : Geographical Shifts, and Predicting the Next "Hot Spots" 
    Nincic, Donna J. (The Johns Hopkins University. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, 2013-06)
    The period of modern maritime piracy has now been with us long enough to show certain trends and patterns. Piracy's success contains within itself the seeds of its own demise: as it becomes too successful, it provokes a ...
  • Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea (book review) 
    Sammler, Katherine G. (Canadian Association of Geographers / Association Canadienne des Géographes, 4/24/2017)
    A review of Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea. Edited by Mike Brown & Barbara Humberstone,
  • Black Panther's Vibranium and the Super Nature of Earthly Materials 
    Sammler, Katherine G. (Museum of the Moving Image, "Sloan Science & Film", 3/22/2018)
    Earthly materials have been a common plot element in the Marvel universe, as well as in science fiction and speculative fiction more broadly. In Black Panther, Vibranium plays a central role. It occurs in a rich vein ...
  • The deep Pacific: Island governance and seabed mineral development 
    Sammler, Katherine G. (Routledge, 11/3/2016)
    While relatively little is known about the deep sea compared to land, data are being collected that fundamentally change how ocean spaces are thought about and engaged with. Beneath the surface of our planet’s expansive ...
  • Kauri and the Whale: Oceanic Matter and Meaning in New Zealand 
    Sammler, Katherine G. (2/18/2019)
    Aotearoa New Zealand has taken the lead in constructing legislative frameworks for governing emerging activities within the offshore territories granted under the UN Law of the Sea treaty. Passing the Foreshore and Seabed ...