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SUMMARY:Understanding the deep sea mining state: The case of Canada - Rosa
 nna Carver (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:María Inés Hernández
DESCRIPTION:Presentation abstract:\nOn April 24\, 2025\, US President Dona
 ld Trump signed an executive order entitled “Unleashing America’s Offs
 hore Critical Minerals and Resources”. This order called for the explora
 tion and extraction of deep sea minerals from the US’s Exclusive Economi
 c Zone and in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction. In response to President
  Trump’s announcement\, The Metals Company\, headquartered in Vancouver\
 , Canada\, has applied for two licences to explore and one to extract\, in
  an imputed attempt to circumvent ongoing multilateral negotiations and en
 able it to mine in “the Area”. The order comes at a time of growing gl
 obal interest in the potential for deep sea mining (DSM). In the face of a
 ccelerating attention on DSM as a political economic reality\, this talk e
 ngages with the ways in which the state and its relationship with the ocea
 nic abyss might be theorised. This talk draws on the case of Canada to the
 orise the DSM state\, engaging with oceanic extractivisms and the limits o
 f territorial sovereignty. It argues that the DSM state is more than a sim
 ple aqueous substitute for the ‘terra centric’ resource state and its 
 narratives of geopolitical mineral security. Throughout\, this work builds
  on volumetric thinking as well as recognising how the sovereignty of Cana
 da\, as a settler-colonial state\, is being challenged from within. In res
 ponse to DSM interests\, First Nations are increasingly drawing on spatial
 ies\, solidarities and relations that circumvent state borders and Imperia
 l imaginations of land sea binaries.
LOCATION:Department of Geography\, Small Lecture Theatre
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