The political uncommons : the cross-cultural logic of the global commons - Milun, Kathryn (Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011)
An emergent global commons: biodiversity---a case study of how culture becomes law and nature becomes empty space -- Terra Nullius, Res Nullius and Res Communis: a conceptual confusion of terms -- Res Nullius---the tragedy of the (modern global) commons: from Grotius and the high seas to the Internet -- Covering Res that move---theory and practice, whales and Res Divini Juris -- The law of the sea extended vertically into the law of outer space, and the law of outer space reterritorializing the earth -- The Western Sahara case---genealogies captured by the census -- Negotiations and the Mabo case: comparative epistemic imaginaries -- Beyond empty space ---expanding the epistemological repertoire of the global commons through biogifural and technological imaginaries.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-214) and index.
Keywords: Environmental law, International; Global commons; Natural resources, Communal; Natural resources -- International cooperation