Terytorializując morze. O performatywności władzy i roli kartografii w rejonie Morza Południowochińskiego

• Authors: Roszko Edyta

Title variants

EN

Territorialising the sea. Performance of sovereignty and the role of cartography in the Spouth China Sea

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article is an anthropological contribution to the standard geopolitical and legal analyses of the South China Sea dispute and to the existing debates on the problem of territoriality, sovereignty and nationalism. In contrast with those studies, which analyse the South China Sea dispute and the growing competition over natural resources by looking mainly at major state actors, I focus on fi shermen communities in China and Vietnam that bear the historical, geopolitical, and economic consequences of this territorial issue. Thus, I propose the interpretation that takes into account historical, social, and cartographic imaginations of nationhood in the context of the competing Chinese and Vietnamese maritime claims to the Paracels and Spratly Islands. Conceptualising maps not as representations of territory but rather as a process, I analyse the ways in which cartographic discourses are used by different groups of actors to produce and enact sovereignty, citizenship, and national identity through activities that make the sea territory legible on the local, national, and global scale.

Keywords

EN

fishing; performativity; national identity; maritime territorialisation; South China Sea; geo-body; customary law; cartography

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
• Journal: Lud
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 99
• Pages: 65-89

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Roszko Edyta

• Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

Identifiers

ISSN

0076-1435