15. Queer Oceans Law

This week Tamsin Phillipa Paige interviews Gina Heathcote on her work applying queer theory method to oceans law. What does it mean to view the ocean as a legal subject? What can legal pluralism and feminist theory tell us about maritime security? Gina's recommendations and references: Ratna Kapur - book Gender, Alterity and Human Rights (https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/gender-alterity-and-human-rights-9781839104473.html) and her article (https://journals.law.harvard.edu/hrj/wp-content/uploads/sites/83/2020/06/15HHRJ1-Kapur.pdf) Rahul Rao - Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality (https://academic.oup.com/book/37418) Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner - artist and poet (kathyjetnilkijiner.com) - two poems, Rise: From One Island to Another (https://350.org/rise-from-one-island-to-another/) and Islands Dropped from a Basket (https://www.kathyjetnilkijiner.com/islands-dropped-from-a-basket/) Charlesworth, Heathcote and Jones in Feminist Legal Studies - Feminist Scholarship on International Law in the 1990s and Today: An Inter-Generational Conversation (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10691-018-9384-1) The forthcoming books Queer Encounters with International Law: Lives, Communities, Subjectivities (https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Encounters-with-International-Law-Lives-Communities-Subjectivities/Paige-OHara/p/book/9781032643045) and Queer Engagements with International Law: Times, Spaces, Imaginings (https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Engagements-with-International-Law-Times-Spaces-Imaginings/OHara-Paige/p/book/9781032643229) Vanja Hamzic's writing on law and violence in: Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities (https://www.routledge.com/Queering-International-Law-Possibilities-Alliances-Complicities-Risks/Otto/p/book/9780367886370) The art of Léuli Eshrāghi (1986-), they belong to the Sāmoan clans Seumanutafa and Tautua, (https://leulieshraghi.art/) Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait