Summer break for OceanStates
With summer break rapidly approaching, the OceanStates research team will be taking a month-long pause in July. Read More …
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Atoll Ways of Being with the Ocean
A perspective from low laying atolls brings climate discourses and practical realities together. Tokelau experiences with political intervensions employed by overseas agents range historically from instruments of demographic control to more recent measures related to transport and access to revenue from the EEZ. Tensions between different ways of being with the ocean are increasingly apparent. Read More …
Ocean Talanoa
In July 2022 the OceanStates project had the privilege of bringing 28 students from the University of the South Pacific on board the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl of Bergen, for a three-week voyage in Fiji waters. In this blogpost, you can read about how students from across the world engaged in exercises of knowledge sharing through the oceanic practice of ‘talanoa’ on this voyage together. Read More …
Water, Oceans and Climate Change: Legal challenges, local perspectives and important examples to learn from
Dr Joanna Siekiera was recently invited to speak at a Special Lecture on Climate Change and its Impact on Small Island Developing States: The Example of the Pacific at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) by Professor David Attard, Director of the IMO International Maritime Law Institute. Here is what she had to say. Read More …
OceanStates is on summer break
Much like the rest of Norway, many of us in the OceanStates team are taking our summer break in the month of July. The project will therefore be operationally resting until August, while we step out of our offices to enjoy the summer sun and take in some fresh air. Until then, here are a Read More …