ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter reflects on what follows from the analysis put forward in this work. On the one hand, law has been shown to interact with other normative systems grounded in economic, scientific, and technological rationality to (de)legitimise categories and instances of human-ocean interaction, in the process contributing to the production of environmental and social injustices. At the same time, law is one of the morally charged contexts in which to seek means of prevention or remediation. This duality and the tensions it creates are reflected in the questions that the present study set out to address and the lines of argumentation it developed. They are equally reflected in the recommendations that the study has put forward. A key recommendation is that the normative framework that governs marine spatial planning (MSP) in the EU be at least partly regrounded in human rights. This is a qualified recommendation. Attached to it is the caveat that, if human rights are to help MSP reclaim its radical potential, they must first reclaim their own. This work sees a way forward in a socially, ecologically, and spatially relational understanding of the vulnerable subject of human rights and its kin.
