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piracy

colonialism

arabic

gujarati

استعمار

astiemar

            સંસ્થાનવાદ

            sansthānavāda

     Gumaysiga

Ukoloni

                                         കൊളോണിയലിസം 

                                               keāḷēāṇiyalisaṁ

somali

swahili

malayalam

القرصنة

alqarsana

ચાંચિયાગીરી

Cān̄ciyāgīrī

 

budhcad badeed

uharamia

                                                  കടൽക്കൊള്ള

                                                   kaṭalkkeāḷḷa

"problem" -
how to trace the duplicity of both?

as bounded-ness // contest // lines on water // subjective law // territorialization
floating flags // taking // 

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The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India’s Western Littoral

largest territorial enclosure in the world

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nauctical chart

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global fishing watch

sea

<<200 nautical miles>>

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windy - weather map

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environment justice atlas

what is piracy
WHAT are
the limits of national sovereignty, and the relationship between sovereignty (imperium) and possession (dominium)?
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a tug of war of international maritime relations between the end of WWII and the end of the cold war in 1989 can also be seen as a period of deep decolonization. It is a wonder, and not a coincidence that the freedom of lands sees a new colonial capturing at sea - UNCLOS - the largest territorisation process on earth.

UNLO

United Nation Convention of Laws of the Sea

article 101 of UNCLOS, which reads as follows:

 

''Piracy consists of any of the following acts:

(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:

(i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;

(ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;

areas beyond national jusrisdiction

exclusive economic zone - under the sovereignty of the bordering maritime nation-state

territorial waters

free seas?

land

<<high seas>>

<<exclusive economic zones>>

0 miles

200 nautical miles

The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India’s Western Littoral

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spanish

portugese

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“Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.” - James Scott

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