Olwig, Kenneth
- Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
'Archipelago' has been narrowed today to chiefly mean an expanse of water with many scattered islands or just a group of islands. Focusing primarily on the Aegean Sea and the island of Delos with its encircling Cyclades islands, and subsidiarily on the North and Norwegian Seas, this essay seeks to recover the archipelagic's originary classical, archetypal and substantive meaning as a common sea providing the context within which diverse coastal and insular polities are fluidly interwoven on the basis of customary and 'natural' laws. The integrative relational space of such archipelagic seas stands in contradistinction to the legal nature of gridded Euclidean continental space used to enclose people and peoples within the homogenous space of separate territories.
Keywords
Archipelago; landscape law and justice; substantive; Aegean Sea; North Atlantic and Norwegian Seas; Delos; T&O maps; history of cartography; navigation; Greenwich Mean Time
Published in
Landscape Research
2025
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR AND FRANCIS LTD
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Landscape Architecture
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2025.2552994
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/143836