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We invited Ann Vanreusel because of her involvement in research projects focusing on marine environments such as deep-sea and hydrothermal springs. In 2014 she was contacted by DEME, one of the mining companies in order to do the environmental baseline for their concession in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone CCZ in the Pacific.

From: The gap in our understanding of the deep-sea biodiversity

How can a license area for deepsea mining in the Clarion Clipperton Zone, CCZ, granted in 1974 to a US company, land decades later in the hands of Belgian dredging company DEME, which shares it with the Cook Islands? It is an intricacy of the governance of the common heritage of mankind that raises questions. Do enclosures of international waters last forever? But also: can we imagine tactics to undo enclosures and turn towards re-commoning?

From: Undo Enclosures