Antje Scharenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 176912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antje Scharenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antje |
| FAMILY NAME | Scharenberg |
| SIGNATURE | SCHARENBERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St.Gallen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2349-4838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aboard the ‘Commonist Lifeboat’
In From Survival Cannibalism to Climate Politics (2025) as well as in Law and Politics from the Sea (2024) Mann proposes the ‘commonist lifeboat’ as a political metaphor for the age of climate change. This response to Itamar Mann’s re-reading of Regina vs. Dudley and Stephens proposes a materialist reading of his political theory of the ‘commonist lifeboat’, arguing that the lifeboat may be a metaphorical and practical site from which alternative…
Vessels of Solidarity
This article theorises ships as material carriers of transversal solidarity, based on the specific case of civil sea rescue vessels in the Mediterranean. My argument derives from eight months of fieldwork as an engaged activist‐ethnographer amongst civil sea rescue actors in Europe. Bringing empirical findings in conversation with scholarship of maritime resistance, the article adopts a conceptual focus that centres the ship's materiality to expa…
Another ocean is possible
Ocean activism
From enslaved people capturing vessels during the Middle Passage to Greenpeace's and Sea Shepherd's famous anti-whaling campaigns in the latter half of the twentieth century – resistance at sea is a phenomenon that is as old as human seafaring. Yet, while social movement scholars have a long-standing interest in transnational movements and what it means to act politically beyond the borders of nation-states, much less is known about social moveme…
The Sea in Sea Rescue
This article conceptualises how the sea comes to matter for practicing solidarity with maritime migrants. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the article proposes that migration and border studies' critique of methodological nationalism (Anderson, 2020) and focus on mobility (Scheel and Tazzioli, 2022) can be fruitfully combined with the challenge that ocean studies makes towards modernity's “terracentric normative ideal” (Peters et al., 2018…
Algorithmic Resistance in Europe and the Question of Collective Agency
One of the key critical questions of our times is the understanding of how data, algorithmic logics and AI are altering our agency as citizens, and what forms of resistance and opposition are emerging on the ground. Some scholars have shown how algorithms both prohibit as well as aid activists’ agency (Milan, 2018; Treré, 2019; Etter and Albu, 2021), while others have focused on how individual activists challenge the power of algorithms and recla…
Ocean Justice
Discussions of global justice urgently need to include the question of the sea, and to foreground the concept of ocean justice. The ocean is discussed here as a site from which to address planetary environmental destruction, issues of global inequality and racialised violence - but also as a political laboratory from which radical alternatives to the current global order may emerge. Discussion focuses on the Blue New Deal; Blue Acceleration - the…
Ill systems
The year 2023 is arguably not the best time to recommend a book about illness. More than three years after Covid-19 infections first made the headlines, many people are experiencing what the WHO has described as 'pandemic fatigue' - the feeling of having had enough of all the talk about illness. 1 Yet, at the same time, there may be no better moment to read Alice Hattrick's Ill Feelings , in which the author describes their daily struggle with ch…
Contested knowledges
This article offers a methodological reflection on what it means to practise politically engaged ethnography with contemporary alter-European activists. While politically engaged research has a long history in the social sciences, it continues to present methodological and epistemological challenges to ethnographers who want their work not only to be academically rigorous, but also politically relevant. In this article, I build on scholarship con…
Sea changes
This article asks what it means to act politically at sea. Since the beginnings of modern seafaring, the ocean has not only been a key site of conquest, war and trade but also of political struggle and resistance from below. We may think here, for instance, of enslaved people’s resistance during the Middle Passage (Rediker, 2022), of Pacific islanders’ fight against the West’s nuclear testing in their waters (Swan, 2022), of dockers strikes and m…
Contested knowledges
This article offers a methodological reflection on what it means to practise politically engaged ethnography with contemporary alter-European activists. While politically engaged research has a long history in the social sciences, it continues to present methodological and epistemological challenges to ethnographers who want their work not only to be academically rigorous, but also politically relevant. In this article, I build on scholarship con…
Ocean activism
From enslaved people capturing vessels during the Middle Passage to Greenpeace's and Sea Shepherd's famous anti-whaling campaigns in the latter half of the twentieth century – resistance at sea is a phenomenon that is as old as human seafaring. Yet, while social movement scholars have a long-standing interest in transnational movements and what it means to act politically beyond the borders of nation-states, much less is known about social moveme…
The Sea in Sea Rescue
This article conceptualises how the sea comes to matter for practicing solidarity with maritime migrants. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the article proposes that migration and border studies' critique of methodological nationalism (Anderson, 2020) and focus on mobility (Scheel and Tazzioli, 2022) can be fruitfully combined with the challenge that ocean studies makes towards modernity's “terracentric normative ideal” (Peters et al., 2018…
Vessels of Solidarity
This article theorises ships as material carriers of transversal solidarity, based on the specific case of civil sea rescue vessels in the Mediterranean. My argument derives from eight months of fieldwork as an engaged activist‐ethnographer amongst civil sea rescue actors in Europe. Bringing empirical findings in conversation with scholarship of maritime resistance, the article adopts a conceptual focus that centres the ship's materiality to expa…
Sea changes
This article asks what it means to act politically at sea. Since the beginnings of modern seafaring, the ocean has not only been a key site of conquest, war and trade but also of political struggle and resistance from below. We may think here, for instance, of enslaved people’s resistance during the Middle Passage (Rediker, 2022), of Pacific islanders’ fight against the West’s nuclear testing in their waters (Swan, 2022), of dockers strikes and m…
Algorithmic Resistance in Europe and the Question of Collective Agency
One of the key critical questions of our times is the understanding of how data, algorithmic logics and AI are altering our agency as citizens, and what forms of resistance and opposition are emerging on the ground. Some scholars have shown how algorithms both prohibit as well as aid activists’ agency (Milan, 2018; Treré, 2019; Etter and Albu, 2021), while others have focused on how individual activists challenge the power of algorithms and recla…
Ocean Justice
Discussions of global justice urgently need to include the question of the sea, and to foreground the concept of ocean justice. The ocean is discussed here as a site from which to address planetary environmental destruction, issues of global inequality and racialised violence - but also as a political laboratory from which radical alternatives to the current global order may emerge. Discussion focuses on the Blue New Deal; Blue Acceleration - the…
Ill systems
The year 2023 is arguably not the best time to recommend a book about illness. More than three years after Covid-19 infections first made the headlines, many people are experiencing what the WHO has described as 'pandemic fatigue' - the feeling of having had enough of all the talk about illness. 1 Yet, at the same time, there may be no better moment to read Alice Hattrick's Ill Feelings , in which the author describes their daily struggle with ch…
Contested knowledges
This article offers a methodological reflection on what it means to practise politically engaged ethnography with contemporary alter-European activists. While politically engaged research has a long history in the social sciences, it continues to present methodological and epistemological challenges to ethnographers who want their work not only to be academically rigorous, but also politically relevant. In this article, I build on scholarship con…
The Sea in Sea Rescue
This article conceptualises how the sea comes to matter for practicing solidarity with maritime migrants. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the article proposes that migration and border studies' critique of methodological nationalism (Anderson, 2020) and focus on mobility (Scheel and Tazzioli, 2022) can be fruitfully combined with the challenge that ocean studies makes towards modernity's “terracentric normative ideal” (Peters et al., 2018…
Aboard the ‘Commonist Lifeboat’
In From Survival Cannibalism to Climate Politics (2025) as well as in Law and Politics from the Sea (2024) Mann proposes the ‘commonist lifeboat’ as a political metaphor for the age of climate change. This response to Itamar Mann’s re-reading of Regina vs. Dudley and Stephens proposes a materialist reading of his political theory of the ‘commonist lifeboat’, arguing that the lifeboat may be a metaphorical and practical site from which alternative…
Vessels of Solidarity
This article theorises ships as material carriers of transversal solidarity, based on the specific case of civil sea rescue vessels in the Mediterranean. My argument derives from eight months of fieldwork as an engaged activist‐ethnographer amongst civil sea rescue actors in Europe. Bringing empirical findings in conversation with scholarship of maritime resistance, the article adopts a conceptual focus that centres the ship's materiality to expa…
Another ocean is possible
Ocean activism
From enslaved people capturing vessels during the Middle Passage to Greenpeace's and Sea Shepherd's famous anti-whaling campaigns in the latter half of the twentieth century – resistance at sea is a phenomenon that is as old as human seafaring. Yet, while social movement scholars have a long-standing interest in transnational movements and what it means to act politically beyond the borders of nation-states, much less is known about social moveme…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · International Maritime Law Issues (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Civil society (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works)