Dear all,
in the third Space Sustainability Talk, we will be joined by Cristian
van Eijk with a talk on "Unstealing the Sky: Third World Equity in the
Orbital Commons".
Date: Monday 28 June 2021, 4.30 pm CEST
Location: Zoom - join us at
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/64187413753?pwd=cVVSY2JjTkQvSitDZlB5VzJFLzNyZz09
(no registration necessary)
Abstract
No universal rule settles the legal status of outer space: to whom it
‘belongs’. The Outer Space Treaty article I qualifies activities, not
areas; the Moon Agreement’s common heritage of humankind regime binds
only 18 states. This uncertainty is not accidental – leaving space’s
legal status to interpretation empowers the loudest interpreters. Space
is considered res communis more by axiom than practice, despite decades
of Global South proposals for stronger regimes. Article I of the Outer
Space Treaty is a battlefield fought with normative weaponry. Within it
lie artefactual remnants of two opposing values – that states would use
space freely, but also equitably. Article I promised a balance between
the two, ensuring equity for all. But the ‘common-ness’ of space remains
haunted by echoes of hegemonic contestation yet ongoing;
epistemologically, space was long ago colonised. Is this the future the
Global South was promised? Cristian van Eijk argues that the law of the
space commons was formed by promises broken and silences made – and some
of these silences weigh more heavily than others.
More details about the Space Sustainability Talks:
https://www.sichtraum-netzwerk.de/2021/06/07/our-new-series-of-online-events-space-sustainability-talks/
We hope to see you next Monday!
Best wishes,
Daniel Lambach
--
Lambach, Daniel (2021): The Functional Territorialization of
the High Seas. In: Marine Policy 130, forthcoming.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104579.
--
PD Dr. Daniel Lambach
Heisenberg Fellow
Research Centre Normative Orders
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
60629 Frankfurt/Main
Tel +49-69-798-31497
http://www.daniel-lambach.de/
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