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Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital, and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision. (2012)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P., Nyman, E., & Caraccioli, M. (2012). Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital, and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 44(4), 1532-1550. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00963.x

Political actors have long drawn on utopian imaginaries of colonizing marine and island spaces as models for idealized libertarian commonwealths. A recent inheritor of this tradition is the seasteading movement, which seeks to “further the establishm... Read More about Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital, and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision..

Contested Sovereignty in a Changing Arctic. (2010)
Journal Article
Gerhardt, H., Steinberg, P. E., Tasch, J., Fabiano, S. J., & Shields, R. (2010). Contested Sovereignty in a Changing Arctic. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(4), 992-1002. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2010.500560

Climate change is challenging the notions of permanency and stability on which the ideal of the sovereign, territorial state historically has rested. Nowhere is this challenge more pressing than in the Arctic. As states expand their sovereignty claim... Read More about Contested Sovereignty in a Changing Arctic..