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SUMMARY:The Centrality of Islands: Re-conceptualizing anthropogenic interference and natural processes in the Southeast Asia
LOCATION:Room 3.03
DESCRIPTION:Historically, small islands of Southeast Asia constituted hubs 
 for fishing and trade and were used by seafarers as landmarks for navigatio
 n and as fresh water sources. They were part of a wider circulation of mari
 ne goods like tortoiseshell, sea urchin, snail, sea cucumber, bird’s nest, 
 fish sauce, cotton and silver that took place in the eighteenth and ninetee
 nth centuries along less frequented maritime routes in the region. Today, t
 hese islands constitute important markers of oceanic sovereignty but also c
 limate change. The singularity and connectedness of those islands are displ
 ayed in human-caused changes (e.g. rising sea level, plastic pollution, oce
 an acidification; deforestation, draught) but simultaneously refuted by mar
 itime disputes, militarization, and neoliberal politics. The historically r
 ecent legal regime of Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) allows coastal countr
 ies to extend territorial sovereignty to claim erstwhile high seas as exclu
 sive state property, which can subsequently be privatized. The disputed Sou
 th China Sea was for example until the late 20th century a zone of ethnic f
 luidity, maritime connection, and marine resource commons. Legal regimes su
 ch as EEZs are the result of Western geographical imaginaries, which became
  hegemonic on a universal scale, as brought out in analytical frameworks su
 ch as the ‘Black Atlantic’ or ‘North-Atlantic Universals´, erasing local hi
 stories while vernacularizing European land-based immobile categories. Taki
 ng the singularity of the ‘sea’ as a starting point, this proposal foregrou
 nds the islands, beyond territorially bounded nation-states and homogenous 
 national histories. It invites paper contributions that combine the analysi
 s of the marine environment with a focus on maritime connections and moveme
 nts of humans and their interactions with the islands and seas, conceiving 
 of the marine ecology as a space of  anthropogenic interference with natura
 l processes. In this way, the panel empirically and theoretically shows tha
 t islands are not a marginal or peripheral, but important vectors in global
  connections and globalization, both historically and to this day.
URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/the-centrality-of-islands-re-conceptualizing-anthropogenic-interference-and-natural-processes-in-the-southeast-asia
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