Other Academic Papers

• Dave, Mekhala, co-author with Susan Reid, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Giulia Champion, Jonathan Galka, Khadija Stewart, and Alejandro Limpo. 2025. “The Deep Currents Collective: An Abyssal Conversation.” In Special Issue: Thinking the World from the Deep Ocean: Seabed Mining Across Resource, Regulatory and Ethical Frontiers, Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific (CLJP). Peer-reviewed.  

• Dave, Mekhala and Mae Lubetkin. 2025. “The Queer Ocean: Obfuscating Territorial Zones.” In Special Issue: Thinking the World from the Deep Ocean: Seabed Mining Across Resource, Regulatory and Ethical Frontiers, Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific (CLJP). Peer-reviewed.

• Dave, Mekhala, co-author with Emma Critchley and Pradeep Arjan Singh. The Case for Deep Sea Rights: A Path to Equitable and Sustainable Ocean Stewardship – A Manifesto. Published by Science Gallery London and featured in Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, 2025. Developed from the installation Rights of the Deep and presented at the One Ocean Science Congress (2025). ISSN is 1757-2041. 

• Dave, Mekhala. 2025. “Undulating Currents: A Group Show – An Analysis into the Curatorial Process.” In REDEFINE: Curating and Artistic Practices in South East Asia, OnCurating Issue 59. Peer-reviewed. ISSN 2673-2904 (Online) and ISSN 2673-2955 (Print). 

• Dave, Mekhala. 2024. “Ocean space: Timeless relations.” In Yearbook on the Law of the Sea, Vol. 4: Humanity across the waves—Exploring the interplay between the Law of the Sea and Human Rights Law, Trieste: Luglio Editore / ASCOMARE. Peer-reviewed; SCOPUS indexed. ISSN 3035-1448. 

• Dave, Mekhala. 2023. “A fin, a tale, a sail and a wave – where do we go from here?” In Yearbook on the Law of the Sea, Vol. 3: Maritime Security, New Technology and Ethics—Evolving Challenges and Opportunities, Trieste: Luglio Editore / ASCOMARE. Peer-reviewed; SCOPUS indexed. ISSN 3035-1448. 

• Dave, Mekhala, with Pietro Consolandi. 2022. “Haunting Pasts to Flowing Futures: In Search of Oceanic Agency.” In Yearbook on the Law of the Sea, Vol. 2: Fisheries and the Law of the Sea in the Anthropocene Era, Trieste: Luglio Editore / ASCOMARE. Peer-reviewed; SCOPUS indexed. ISSN 3035-1448. 

• Dave, Mekhala. 2021. “The Image: An Interpretation.” In Yearbook on the Law of the Sea, Vol. 1: Law of the Sea, Interpretation and Definitions, Trieste: Luglio Editore / ASCOMARE. Peer-reviewed; SCOPUS indexed. ISSN 3035-1448.

• The Migrant Crisis: Art's Approach to Legal Policies, Synergies between International and Constitutional Law on Human Rights (Chapter in Book Publication - published 2021)

• India and Beyond: Transnational Artistic Practice for the Rights of Citizens, Campus de les Arts, 2020, pp. 234-241

• Critical Zones - Observatory for Earthly Politics - MIT Press, Project Assistant, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, 2020

Blogs/Archives

• Dave, Mekhala. 2025. “Our Heritage and Futures: Negotiating the Deep Ocean - Reflections from the ISA 30th Session”, Kingston, Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute, University of Southampton

• Dave, Mekhala. 2025. Rights of the Deep at One Ocean Science Congress, Journeys at ocean-archive.org.