Week 8 Oceanic Shipping and Submarine Cables – This week’s sessions will encounter the ocean as a globalized space of networks and flows, and home to material infrastructures that literally tie together the global economy and facilitate global communications. The first session considers the role of transnational maritime shipping as a primary conduit of early globalization, and an essential feature of contemporary globalism. While maritime shipping primarily transmits goods, the undersea telecommunications networks explored in the second session are responsible for the circulation of information around the globe. The material architecture of these networks will be reviewed, and we will discuss their significance for both the global economy and the future of the Internet. Total pages: 95 Transnational Shipping: Antoine Fremont, Shipping at the Crossroads of Economic and Environmental “Maritime Challenges,” (139-148) 2011 Oceans: The New Frontier, Ian Urbina, and Crimes Aboard a Scofflaw Ship,” July 17, The New York Times, “Stowaways 2015 Linda Qiu, Growth Fuels Boom in World Shipping Traffic,” National Geographic, “China’s November 27, 2014 Peter Gwin, Ship-Breakers,” May 2014 National Geographic, “The Submarine Telecommunications: Bernard S Finn and Daqing Yang. (pgs. 3-8) and Geopolitical Implications “Introduction” “The of Communication Under the Seas” (pgs. 257-278), MIT Press, Communications under the Seas. 2009 Nicole Starosielski. (pgs. 1-26) and Depths” (pgs. 199-224), The “Introduction” “Cabled Duke University Press, 2015 Undersea Network. Week 9 Naval Rivalries: The Cold War and After – This week students will approach the ocean from a military perspective. The interests (and funding) of the Department of Defense have had a significant impact on the content of international Law of the Sea and the history of oceanography. Class discussion will follow the Navy’s efforts to project power across and underneath the ocean, the role of military institutions in formulating the US position in international negotiations, and the mutually beneficial relationship developed between the Navy and oceanographers. Pages: 108
Week 8 – Oceanic Shipping and Submarine Cables This week’s sessions will encounter the ocean as a globalized space of networks and flows, and home to material infrastructures that literally tie together the global economy and facilitate global communications. The first session considers the role of transnational maritime shipping as a primary conduit of early globalization, and an essential feature of contemporary globalism. While maritime shipping primarily transmits goods, the undersea telecommunications networks explored in the second session are responsible for the circulation of information around the globe. The material architecture of these networks will be reviewed, and we will discuss their significance for both the global economy and the future of the Internet. Total pages: 95 Transnational Shipping: Antoine Fremont, “Maritime Shipping at the Crossroads of Economic and Environmental Challenges,” (139-148) Oceans: The New Frontier, 2011 Ian Urbina, “Stowaways and Crimes Aboard a Scofflaw Ship,” The New York Times, July 17, 2015 Linda Qiu, “China’s Growth Fuels Boom in World Shipping Traffic,” National Geographic, November 27, 2014 Peter Gwin, “The Ship-Breakers,” National Geographic, May 2014 Submarine Telecommunications: Bernard S Finn and Daqing Yang. “Introduction” (pgs. 3-8) and “The Geopolitical Implications of Communication Under the Seas” (pgs. 257-278), Communications under the Seas. MIT Press, 2009 Nicole Starosielski. “Introduction” (pgs. 1-26) and “Cabled Depths” (pgs. 199-224), The Undersea Network. Duke University Press, 2015 Week 9 – Naval Rivalries: The Cold War and After This week students will approach the ocean from a military perspective. The interests (and funding) of the Department of Defense have had a significant impact on the content of international Law of the Sea and the history of oceanography. Class discussion will follow the Navy’s efforts to project power across and underneath the ocean, the role of military institutions in formulating the US position in international negotiations, and the mutually beneficial relationship developed between the Navy and oceanographers. Pages: 108
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