Kimberley Peters leads the Marine Governance Research Group at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), a collaboration between the University of Oldenburg and Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Germany.

Jon Anderson is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK.

Andrew Davies is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool, and is Co-Director of the Centre for Port and Maritime History, a collaborative Centre run by the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Merseyside Maritime Museum.

Philip Steinberg is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University, UK where he is Director of IBRU: Durham University's Centre for Borders Research and the Durham Arctic Research Centre for Training and Interdisciplinary Collaboration (DurhamARCTIC).

Section 1: Ocean Approaches, Ocean Perspectives

1. Introduction: Placing and Situating Ocean Space(s)

Section 2: Ocean Frameworks, Ocean Knowledges

2. Mapping: Measuring, Modelling and Monitoring the Oceans

3. Science: Histories, Imaginations, Spaces

4. Representation: Seapower and the Political Construction of the Ocean

5. Empire: Towards Errant and Interlocking Maritime Spaces of Power

6. Frontiers: Ocean Epistemologies: Privatise, Democratise, Decolonise

7. Culture: Indigenous M¿ori Knowledges of the Ocean and Leisure Practices

Section 3: Ocean Economies, Ocean Labour

8. Fishing: Livelihoods and Territorialisation of Ocean Space

9. Planning: Seeking to Coordinate the Use of Marine Space

10. Docking: Maritime Ports in the Making of the Global Economy

11. Containers: The Shipping Container as Spatial Standard

12. Seafarers: The Force that Moves the Global Economy

13. (De)Growth: The Right to the Sea

14. Resources: Feminist Geopolitics of Ocean Imaginaries and Resource Securitisation

Section 4: Ocean Histories, Ocean Politics

15. Security: Pragmatic Spaces and the Maritime Security Agenda

16. Navies: Military Security and the Oceans

17. Discipline: Beyond the Ship as Total Institution

18. Protest:Contested Hierarchies and Grievances of the Sea

19. Solidarities:Oceanic Spaces and Internationalisms from Below

20. Migration: Security and Humanitarianism across the Mediterranean Border

Section 5: Ocean Experiences, Ocean Engagements

21. Writing: Literature and the Sea

22. Imaginaries: Art, Film, and the Scenography of Oceanic Worlds

23. Swimming: Immersive Encounters in the Ocean

24. Surfing: The What, Where, How, and Why of Wild Surfing

25. Sailing: The Ocean Around and Within Us

26. Diving:Leisure, Lively Encounters, and Work Underwater

Section 6: Ocean Environments, Ocean Worlds

27. Depth: Discovering, 'Mastering', Exploring the Deep

28. Life: Ethical, Extractive and Geopolitical Intimacies with Nonhuman Marine Life

29. Waves: The Measure of All Waves

30. Hydrosphere: Water and the Making of Earth Knowledge

31. Ice: Elements, Geopolitics, Law and Popular Culture

32. Islands: Reclaimed: Singapore, Space and the Sea