Private Oceans

The Enclosure and Marketisation of the Seas

AvFiona McCormack

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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As the era of thriving, small-scale fishing communities continues to wane across waters that once teamed with (a way of) life, Fiona McCormack opens a window into contemporary fisheries quota systems, laying bare how neoliberalism has entangled itself in our approach to environmental management. Grounded in fieldwork in New Zealand, Iceland, Ireland and Hawaii, McCormack offers up a comparative analysis of the mechanisms driving the transformations unleashed by a new era of ocean grabbing. Exploring the processes of privatisation in ecosystem services, Private Oceans traces how value has been repositioned in the market, away from productive activities. The result? The demise of the small-scale sector, the collapse of fishing communities, cultural loss, and the emergence of a newly propertied class of producers - the armchair fisherman. Ultimately, Private Oceans demonstrates that the deviations from the capitalist norm explored in this book offer grounds for the reimagining of both fisheries economies and broader environmental systems.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-20
Mått:135 x 215 x undefined mm
Vikt:367 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthropology, Culture and Society
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745399157

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Fiona McCormack is Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Anthropology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is author of Private Oceans (Pluto, 2017), co-editor of Engaging with Capitalism (Emerald Group Publishing, 2013) and a contributor to Anthropologies of Value (Pluto, 2016).

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'This comprehensive analysis explores the linkages between the failure of late capitalism and the rise of neoliberalism in four countries' fisheries. Wonderfully combining political ecology and economy, McCormack's anthropological gaze also illuminates how resistance often followed neoliberal attempts to shape local cultural understandings of fishing and oceans'

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Series PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsGlossaryIntroduction: Neoliberalising the Environment: the Case of Fisheries Quota1. Disciplining and Incorporating Dissent: Neoliberalism and Indigeneity2. Sustainability: A Malleable Concept 3. Transferability and Markets4. Gifts and Commodities: Hawaiian Fisheries5. Nostalgia: Laments and Precarity Epilogue: ITQs, Neoliberalism and the AnthropoceneNotesBibliographyIndex