Irus Braverman and Elizabeth R. Johnson, editors

Introduction. Blue Legalities: Governing More-Than-Human Oceans / Elizabeth R. Johnson and Irus Braverman 1
1. Solwara 1 and the Sessile Ones / Susan Reid 25
2. Held in Suspense: Mustard Gas Legalities in the Gotland Deep / Astrida Neimanis 45
3. Kauri and the Whale: Oceanic Matter and Meaning in New Zealand / Katherine G. Sammler 63
4. Edges and Flows: Exploring Legal Materialities and Biophysical Politics of Sea Ice / Philip E. Steinberg, Berit Kristoffersen, and Kristen L. Shake 85
5. Liquid Territory, Shifting Sands: Property, Sovereignty, and Space in Southeast Asia's Tristate Maritime Boundary Zone / Jennifer L. Gaynor 107
6. Wave Law / Stefan Helmreich 129
7. Robotic Life in the Deep Sea / Irus Braverman 147
8. The Technopolitics of Ocean Sensing / Jessica Lehman 165
9. The Hydra and the Leviathan: Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and the Militarized Seaspace / Elizabeth R. Johnson 183
10. Clupea Liberum: Hugo Grotius, Free Seas, and the Political Biology of Herring / Alison Rieser 201
11. Whales and the Colonization of the Pacific Ocean / Zsofia Korosy 219
12. The Sea Wolf and the Sovereign / Stephanie Jones 237
13. Marine Microbiopolitics: Haunted Microbes before the Law / Astrid Schrader 255
14. "Got Algae?": Putting Marine Life to Work for Sustainability / Amy Braun 275
15. "Climate Engineering Doesn't Stop Ocean Acidification": Addressing Harms to Ocean Life in Geoengineering Imaginaries / Holly Jean Buck 295
Afterword. Adequate Imaginaries for Anthropocene Seas / Stacy Alaimo 311
Contributors 327
Index 331