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Seminar: 08-27-GS-5 Blue Political Ecology: capital, power and resistance in the Global Ocean - Details

Seminar: 08-27-GS-5 Blue Political Ecology: capital, power and resistance in the Global Ocean - Details

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Course name Seminar: 08-27-GS-5 Blue Political Ecology: capital, power and resistance in the Global Ocean
Subtitle Blaue Politische Ökologie: Kapital, Macht und Widerstand im globalen Ozean.
Course number 08-27-GS-5
Semester WiSe 2025/2026
Current number of participants 3
expected number of participants 30
Home institute Geographie
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
Next date Friday, 12.12.2025 10:15 - 15:30, Room: FVG M2010
Type/Form
Participants General Studies (all faculties / Freigabe für alle FB)
Pre-requisites None (Keine)
Learning organisation Lernziele/Kompetenzen (Learning outcomes):
• Critical reading of selected studies.
• Improve oral communication and public speaking through presentations.
• Improve skills in academic discussion and debate through group activities.
• Develop the ability to critically analyse the political economy of the ocean by applying concepts such as capital accumulation, grabbing, class, and resistance to contemporary blue economy initiatives.
Performance record • Active participation – regular attendance, reading the texts and participating in the discussions.
• Presentation of research on a topic related to the seminar.
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja
ECTS points 3

Rooms and times

SFG 1020
Friday, 24.10.2025 10:15 - 13:30
FVG M2010
Friday, 12.12.2025, Friday, 19.12.2025, Friday, 16.01.2026 10:15 - 15:30
GW2 B1700
Friday, 23.01.2026 10:15 - 15:30

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Comment/Description

This seminar offers an introduction to examine how capitalist relations shape and are shaped by the ocean, recognising that how ocean space is used, valued, and governed is inseparable from dominant forms of social reproduction within a given time and space. While the ocean has long been central to processes of capital accumulation, recent shifts have framed it as a global economic frontier under the banner of the "Blue Economy." In the seminar, we will critically examine what this shift represents in terms of how extraction is organized, justified and resisted. Drawing on debates in political ecology, critical geography, and ocean studies, the course engages with both historical and contemporary cases. Through readings, media, debates, and fieldwork, the seminar offers tools to understand the ocean not only as a site of environmental concern, but as a political space marked by power struggles.

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