Philip Steinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Steinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinberg |
| SIGNATURE | STEINBERG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 418 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Trans-actional ocean. Excessive mobilities and immersive temporalities at sea
This special issue has had a long journey. A journey made of mentoring, of sharing oceanic thoughts, of rethinking and stepping back, of shared readings and dialogues, but, above all, of self-quest...
Listening to/in the Field
This article reflects on the Exploring Arctic Soundscapes project, a transdisciplinary venture of seven natural scientists, social scientists, and artists that sought to explore how a focus on sound could spur development of a new research sensibility for generating insights beyond the comfort zone of any one discipline. Viewing sound less as an object of study (“what sounds define a place?”) or methodology (“how do we listen to a place?”) than a…
Technoscientific imaging and the territorialization of ocean depth
Once the last unclaimed solid expanse on Earth, the ocean floor has become one of the most contested spaces in contemporary geopolitics. The data-imagery produced by technoscience serves as the ultimate tool for nations asserting sovereignty in this territorial race. This symposium gathers diverse perspectives on the ongoing expansionist drive on the seabed, drawing inspiration from Abissal ——a film-article featuring the Portuguese modern odyssey…
Polar projections
It Is Not Down on Any Map
Islands have a complicated and, at times, paradoxical relationship with the sovereign state. Some islands have been lauded as prototypical models for the idealised hard-bordered spaces of state sovereignty; others have been written off as barbarian spaces beyond the limits of state civilisation; still others have been embraced as spaces of partial incorporation, where the state lacks the full package of rights and responsibilities that normally a…
Thinking from multiple oceans
Oceans, islands, closets and smells
Thinking with non-solid geographic forms to undermine the conceits and closures of the static, bounded territorial state is all the rage in decolonization studies. The table of contents of the book
Blue planet, Black lives
The limitations of statues
Turbulent Waters in Three Parts
While scientific accounts of ocean dynamics draw public attention to the turbulence of earthly matter, the science alone tells a truncated story. The ocean's turbulent materiality is more than material: practices of scientific knowledge and historically embedded meanings and metaphors also constitute how we know, understand, and attempt to govern ocean and land alike. Indeed, planetary ocean science is always located within a history and politics…
Political geography in the impasse
‘The ice edge is lost … nature moved it’
This paper explores how ‘ice’ is woven into the spaces and practices of the state in Norway and Canada and, specifically, how representations of the sea ice edge become political agents in that process. We focus in particular on how these states have used science to ‘map’ sea ice – both graphically and legally – over the past decades. This culminated with two maps produced in 2015, a Norwegian map that moved the Arctic sea‐ice edge 70 km northwar…
Contesting the Arctic
As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignty claims. Increasingly, interested parties from both within and beyond the region, including states, indigenous groups, corporate organizations, and NGOs and are pursuing …
Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces
This paper expands on recent attempts to destabilise the static, bordered, and linear framings that typify human geographical studies of place, territory, and time. In a world conceptualised as open, immanent, and ever-becoming, scholars have turned away from notions of fixity towards fluidity and flow, and, in so doing, have developed networked, 'flat' ontologies. Recent attempts have gone further, challenging the horizontalism inherent in such …
Global communication and the post-statism of cyberspace
Scholars from a range of perspectives question how the system of sovereign, territorial states is being impacted by the rise of cyberspace, a domain of information flows that apparently transcends state boundaries. Opinions range from those of neorealists who view these flows as posing a fundamental threat to state integrity to neoliberals who view them as one more opportunity for international cooperation. In this article, we hold that both of t…
Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces
This paper expands on recent attempts to destabilise the static, bordered, and linear framings that typify human geographical studies of place, territory, and time. In a world conceptualised as open, immanent, and ever-becoming, scholars have turned away from notions of fixity towards fluidity and flow, and, in so doing, have developed networked, 'flat' ontologies. Recent attempts have gone further, challenging the horizontalism inherent in such …
Blue planet, Black lives
Oceans, islands, closets and smells
Thinking with non-solid geographic forms to undermine the conceits and closures of the static, bounded territorial state is all the rage in decolonization studies. The table of contents of the book
Political geography in the impasse
Thinking from multiple oceans
Global communication and the post-statism of cyberspace
Scholars from a range of perspectives question how the system of sovereign, territorial states is being impacted by the rise of cyberspace, a domain of information flows that apparently transcends state boundaries. Opinions range from those of neorealists who view these flows as posing a fundamental threat to state integrity to neoliberals who view them as one more opportunity for international cooperation. In this article, we hold that both of t…
Technoscientific imaging and the territorialization of ocean depth
Once the last unclaimed solid expanse on Earth, the ocean floor has become one of the most contested spaces in contemporary geopolitics. The data-imagery produced by technoscience serves as the ultimate tool for nations asserting sovereignty in this territorial race. This symposium gathers diverse perspectives on the ongoing expansionist drive on the seabed, drawing inspiration from Abissal ——a film-article featuring the Portuguese modern odyssey…
Polar projections
Global communication and the post-statism of cyberspace
Scholars from a range of perspectives question how the system of sovereign, territorial states is being impacted by the rise of cyberspace, a domain of information flows that apparently transcends state boundaries. Opinions range from those of neorealists who view these flows as posing a fundamental threat to state integrity to neoliberals who view them as one more opportunity for international cooperation. In this article, we hold that both of t…
Contesting the Arctic
As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignty claims. Increasingly, interested parties from both within and beyond the region, including states, indigenous groups, corporate organizations, and NGOs and are pursuing …
Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces
This paper expands on recent attempts to destabilise the static, bordered, and linear framings that typify human geographical studies of place, territory, and time. In a world conceptualised as open, immanent, and ever-becoming, scholars have turned away from notions of fixity towards fluidity and flow, and, in so doing, have developed networked, 'flat' ontologies. Recent attempts have gone further, challenging the horizontalism inherent in such …
‘The ice edge is lost … nature moved it’
This paper explores how ‘ice’ is woven into the spaces and practices of the state in Norway and Canada and, specifically, how representations of the sea ice edge become political agents in that process. We focus in particular on how these states have used science to ‘map’ sea ice – both graphically and legally – over the past decades. This culminated with two maps produced in 2015, a Norwegian map that moved the Arctic sea‐ice edge 70 km northwar…
Political geography in the impasse
Turbulent Waters in Three Parts
While scientific accounts of ocean dynamics draw public attention to the turbulence of earthly matter, the science alone tells a truncated story. The ocean's turbulent materiality is more than material: practices of scientific knowledge and historically embedded meanings and metaphors also constitute how we know, understand, and attempt to govern ocean and land alike. Indeed, planetary ocean science is always located within a history and politics…
Blue planet, Black lives
The limitations of statues
Oceans, islands, closets and smells
Thinking with non-solid geographic forms to undermine the conceits and closures of the static, bounded territorial state is all the rage in decolonization studies. The table of contents of the book
Listening to/in the Field
This article reflects on the Exploring Arctic Soundscapes project, a transdisciplinary venture of seven natural scientists, social scientists, and artists that sought to explore how a focus on sound could spur development of a new research sensibility for generating insights beyond the comfort zone of any one discipline. Viewing sound less as an object of study (“what sounds define a place?”) or methodology (“how do we listen to a place?”) than a…
Technoscientific imaging and the territorialization of ocean depth
Once the last unclaimed solid expanse on Earth, the ocean floor has become one of the most contested spaces in contemporary geopolitics. The data-imagery produced by technoscience serves as the ultimate tool for nations asserting sovereignty in this territorial race. This symposium gathers diverse perspectives on the ongoing expansionist drive on the seabed, drawing inspiration from Abissal ——a film-article featuring the Portuguese modern odyssey…
Polar projections
It Is Not Down on Any Map
Islands have a complicated and, at times, paradoxical relationship with the sovereign state. Some islands have been lauded as prototypical models for the idealised hard-bordered spaces of state sovereignty; others have been written off as barbarian spaces beyond the limits of state civilisation; still others have been embraced as spaces of partial incorporation, where the state lacks the full package of rights and responsibilities that normally a…
Thinking from multiple oceans
The Trans-actional ocean. Excessive mobilities and immersive temporalities at sea
This special issue has had a long journey. A journey made of mentoring, of sharing oceanic thoughts, of rethinking and stepping back, of shared readings and dialogues, but, above all, of self-quest...
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Coastal and Marine Management (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Oceanography (5 works)