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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..

Free Sea. (2011)
Book Chapter
Steinberg, P. (2011). Free Sea. In S. Legg (Ed.), Sovereignty, Spatiality, and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos (268-275). Routledge

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..

Power and Space in Electronic Communications (2010)
Book Chapter
Steinberg, P. E., & Purcell, D. (2010). Power and Space in Electronic Communications. In R. A. Denemark (Ed.), The International Studies Encyclopedia (5893-5906). Wiley

Key West's Conch Republic: Building Sovereignties of Connection (2009)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E., & Chapman, T. E. (2009). Key West's Conch Republic: Building Sovereignties of Connection. Political Geography, 28(5), 283-295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.08.001

This article examines the Conch Republic, a semi-farcical micro-state that was established in Key West, Florida in 1982. Although the Conch Republic has its origins in a direct challenge to state power, it is now a relatively depoliticized statement... Read More about Key West's Conch Republic: Building Sovereignties of Connection.

Sovereignty, Territory, and the Mapping of Mobility: A View from the Outside (2009)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E. (2009). Sovereignty, Territory, and the Mapping of Mobility: A View from the Outside. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 99(3), 467-495. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045600902931702

Theorists within and beyond the discipline of geography increasingly realize that boundaries are not simply lines that enclose and define territories. Boundaries also regulate and are reproduced by acts of movement. Movement, beyond and across, as we... Read More about Sovereignty, Territory, and the Mapping of Mobility: A View from the Outside.