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This video series offers a good introduction to the basic concepts of the deep sea mining regime, including glossaries, nature of the resources, ecological risks, mapping technologies, Euro and Pacific contexts. Reflects (mostly) Euro/Western ontologies though Maureen Penjueli’s (PANG-Pacific Network on Globalisation) reference Pacific futures and call for the development of oceanic worldviews.  

What is Deep Sea Mining? A web series. Episode 1: Tools for Ocean Literacy

What is Deep Sea Mining? A web series. Episode 2: Deep Frontiers

What is Deep Sea Mining? Ep 3.: The Azores Case

What is Deep Sea Mining? Episode 4: A Deep Sea Mining Glossary

What is Deep Sea Mining? Episode 5: The Pacific Precedent

Organisations

Research groups

The Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory | https://theseedbox.se/ 

Multispecies Justice Project | https://multispeciesjustice.space/#about  

The Space Between Us | International First Nations environmental humanities research https://www.thespacebetweenus.ca/ 

TBA21 | https://www.tba21.org/#item–academy–1819

Official and government bodies

International Seabed Authority | https://www.isa.org.jm/ 

The Mining Code: https://www.isa.org.jm/the-mining-code/draft-exploitation-regulations/ 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | https://www.noaa.gov/

Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) | https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf (the Convention) 

https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/oceans-and-the-law-of-the-sea 

Research reports and publications

Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) on Chinese distant-water fishing | https://ejfoundation.org/resources/downloads/The-Ever-Widening-Net-2022-final.pdf 

Projects and exhibitions

University of Queensland (UQ) Museum ‘Blue Assembly’ exhibition (2022) |  https://art-museum.uq.edu.au/blue-assembly-project 

Tidalectics (TBA21; Stefanie Hessler) | https://www.tba21.org/#item–tidalectics–1623