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Mutiny on the Bandwidth: The Semiotics of Statehood in the Internet Domain Name Registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue (2003)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E., & McDowell, S. D. (2003). Mutiny on the Bandwidth: The Semiotics of Statehood in the Internet Domain Name Registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue. New Media and Society, 5(1), 47-67. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444803005001907

The internet has evolved to have a complex top-level domain name system, in which generic top-level domains such as .com and .org coexist with country-code top-level domains such as .UK and .JP. In this article, the history and significance of this h... Read More about Mutiny on the Bandwidth: The Semiotics of Statehood in the Internet Domain Name Registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue.

Place, Power, and Paternalism: Imagined Histories and Welfare Capitalism in Burrillville, Rhode Island, 1912-1951 (2000)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E. (2000). Place, Power, and Paternalism: Imagined Histories and Welfare Capitalism in Burrillville, Rhode Island, 1912-1951. Urban Geography, 21(3), 237-260. https://doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.21.3.237

This article examines the history of community investments made by woolen manufacturer Austin Levy in the town of Burrillville, Rhode Island, in the first half of the 20th century. These investments, characteristic of the paternalistic welfare capita... Read More about Place, Power, and Paternalism: Imagined Histories and Welfare Capitalism in Burrillville, Rhode Island, 1912-1951.

Review Essay: Fish Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction of Nature, by Rik Scarce, and Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis, by Joseph Taylor (2000)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E. (2000). Review Essay: Fish Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction of Nature, by Rik Scarce, and Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis, by Joseph Taylor. Environment and Planning A, 32(10), 1889-1890. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3210rvw

Troubled Water: Acquiescence, Conflict, and the Politics of Place in Watershed Management (1999)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E., & Clark, G. E. (1999). Troubled Water: Acquiescence, Conflict, and the Politics of Place in Watershed Management. Political Geography, 18(4), 477-508. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0962-6298%2898%2900111-5

Controversy surrounds proposed revisions in access and recreation policy at central Massachusetts' Wachusett Reservoir, a crucial source of drinking water for metropolitan Boston. This policy conflict illuminates a broader tension between rural and e... Read More about Troubled Water: Acquiescence, Conflict, and the Politics of Place in Watershed Management.

Lines of Division, Lines of Connection: Stewardship in the World-Ocean (1999)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E. (1999). Lines of Division, Lines of Connection: Stewardship in the World-Ocean. Geographical Review, 89(2), 254-264. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.1999.tb00217.x

This article investigates the history of drawing lines across ocean space. Although drawing lines generally is perceived as an act of division—as exemplified by the line drawn through the Atlantic Ocean by Pope Alexander VI in 1493—lines, like the oc... Read More about Lines of Division, Lines of Connection: Stewardship in the World-Ocean.

The Maritime Mystique: Sustainable Development, Capital Mobility, and Nostalgia in the World-Ocean (1999)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E. (1999). The Maritime Mystique: Sustainable Development, Capital Mobility, and Nostalgia in the World-Ocean. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 17(4), 403-426. https://doi.org/10.1068/d170403

Three images of ocean space are becoming increasingly prevalent in policy and planning circles and popular culture: The image of the ocean as an empty void to be annihilated by hypermobile capital; as a resource-rich but fragile space requiring ratio... Read More about The Maritime Mystique: Sustainable Development, Capital Mobility, and Nostalgia in the World-Ocean.