Blocks and Overflows of Care

Territorialization and Marine Conservation in the Balearic Sea

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5337464
AutoresJose A Cañada (0000-0002-1549-3528, University of Helsinki, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Data de publicação2024-12-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/01622439241299248
OpenAlexW4405084659
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas25

The article expands upon care theory in Science and Technology Studies by attending to marine spaces and practices for conservation of marine and coastal ecosystems. Examining the case of efforts to protect the Mediterranean-endemic seagrass Posidonia oceanica, which the European Union declared a priority habitat in 1992, the article evaluates the concrete impact of a 2018 decree from the Government of the Balearic Islands intended to protect the species in the Balearic Sea. In contrast to the strictly established boundaries that predominate in area-based approaches for marine governance, I analyze two care configurations around Posidonia which allow us to rethink the territorialization of marine space: care "blocks" characterize occasions in which the species-specific emphasis keeps attention away from other systems or species, while care "overflows" denote care spilling over to other systems and species. By thinking these concepts in relation to area-based and species-centered approaches to marine conservation, the article contributes to develop care scholarship, enriching its conceptual repertoire and providing tools to better understand the effects of species-centric environmental policies

Balearic islands · Biology · Business · Corporate governance · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Habitat · Marine conservation · Marine protected area · Political science · Scholarship · Seagrass · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Marine Ecology and Invasive Species · Ecology