Bonnie J Mccay
Biographic Data
| ID | 100245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie J Mccay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccay |
| SIGNATURE | MCCAY B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4949-2918 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 508 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Human Ecology of the Commons
The Culture of the Commoners: Historical Observations on Old and New World Fisheries
The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources
The ontological politics of marine spatial planning: Assembling the ocean and shaping the capacities of ‘Community’ and ‘Environment’
Certifying the commons: Eco-Certification, Privatization, and Collective Action
We examine new dynamics of privatization and collective action in common pool resource situations facilitated by the nonstate multistakeholder institutions of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), the global leader in sustainability certification for wild caught seafood. Through a review of the literature and two case studies of fishing cooperatives in Baja California Sur, Mexico and on Fogo Island in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Lab…
On Happiness
What do anthropologists have to say about happiness? For some contributors in this Vital Topics Forum, happiness is a sensory force that colors and shapes human evolution and experience. Others consider happiness, or the lack thereof, to be a faceted reflection of the arrangements in society. All recognize the potential power of human happiness, where a distant memory, fleeting experience, or idealized vision can serve as a driving force in trans…
The making of an environmental doctrine: Public trust and American shellfishermen
Cumulative effects, creeping enclosure, and the marine commons of New Jersey
In response to declining fish stocks and increased societal concern, the marine ‘commons’ of New Jersey is no longer freely available to commercial and recreational fisheries. We discuss the concept of ‘creeping’ enclosure in relation to New Jersey’s marine fisheries and suggest that reduced access can be a cumulative process and function of multiple events and processes and need not be the result of a single regulatory moment. We begin with a sh…
Expanding the boundaries of commons scholarship: The 2008 Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons
The landscapes, seascapes, and institutions of 'the commons' are products of the interactions between humans and their environments, and the IASC conference of 2008 was an opportunity to explore their many dimensions, from the local to the global. This issue of the International Journal of the Commons commemorates that conference, which was the 2008 international meeting of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), held i…
Cumulative effects, creeping enclosure, and the marine commons of New Jersey
In response to declining fish stocks and increased societal concern, the marine ‘commons’ of New Jersey is no longer freely available to commercial and recreational fisheries. We discuss the concept of ‘creeping’ enclosure in relation to New Jersey’s marine fisheries and suggest that reduced access can be a cumulative process and function of multiple events and processes and need not be the result of a single regulatory moment. We begin with a sh…
Introduction to Human Ecology Vol. 35, No. 5, October 2007 on Marine Resources
Views on Policy: Anthropology and Marine Protected Areas
The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography
The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography. David Griffith. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. ix. 196 pp., illustrations, photographs, references, index
Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim: Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries
This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, two regions experiencing a severe crisis due to overexploitation of fisheries resources. The work of a group of researchers from Canada, Norway, and the United States, it examines the implications of common market integration, privatized resource management, and small business development policies for fishery-dependent communities in terms of long-term sustainability and participatory democr…
Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History
Journal Article Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History. By Bonnie J. McCay. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xxii, 246 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8165-1804-1.) Get access John R. Wennersten John R. Wennersten Tokiwa University, Mito, Japan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 203, https://doi.org/10.2…
Property in Economic Context
Property in Economic Context. ROBERT HUNT and ANTONIO GILMAN. eds. Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 14. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. + 381 pp., notes, references, contributors
Social theory and fisheries co-management
Market or Community Failure? Critical Perspectives on Common Property Research
The best known revisionist perspective on the so-called tragedy of the commons underscores important conceptual and hence policy errors and has been important in contributing to understanding of conditions in which collective action for common benefits, with respect to common pool resources, can take place. Characterizing this perspective as a thin or abstract, generalizing explanatory model, with strengths and weaknesses thereby, we discuss a th…
Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication
Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication. Roy Ellen and Katsuyoshi Fukui. eds. Oxford: Oxford International Publishers Ltd., 1996.664 pp
The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico
The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico. Vivienne Bennett. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. $49.95 hardcover, $19.95 paperback
From the bottom up: Participatory issues in fisheries management
Co‐management"; is among several slogans used to indicate a dissatisfaction with present systems and a movement to more decentralized systems of marine resource management. The authors note the necessary distinction between decentralization and participatory management and use comparative analyses of case studies of fisheries management systems in Scandinavian and North American countries and New Zealand to explore potentials for both decentraliz…
Robert McC. Netting and human ecology: An appreciation
Fisherwomen, fisheries policy, and maritime anthropology
Allison, Charlene J., Sue‐Ellen Jacobs, and Mary A. Porter. Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. xliv + 203 pp. including time‐line, photographs, map, place‐name locator, glossary, bibliography, and index. $25.00 cloth. Cole, Sally, Women of the Praia: Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xvii + 189 pp. including photographs…
Concepts of Process in Social Science Explanations
Social scientists using one or another concept of process have paid little attention to underlying issues of methodology and explanation. Commonly, the concept used is a loose one. When it is not, there often are other problems, such as errors of reification and of assuming that events sometimes connected in a sequence are invariably thus connected. While it may be useful to retain the term " process" for some sequences of intelligibly connected …
The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-two years later
The Question of the commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources
New Directions in Ecology and Ecological Anthropology
In this essay we consider four criticisms of ecological anthropology: its overemphasis on energy, its inability to explain cultural phenomena, its preoccupation with static equilibria, and its lack of clarity about the appropriate units of analysis. Recognizing that some of these criticisms may not be justified, we nevertheless point to parallel concerns in ecology. Further, we ask whether new directions indicated by some ecologists might be appr…
Systems ecology, people ecology, and the anthropology of fishing communities
The ontological politics of marine spatial planning: Assembling the ocean and shaping the capacities of ‘Community’ and ‘Environment’
Property in Economic Context
Property in Economic Context. ROBERT HUNT and ANTONIO GILMAN. eds. Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 14. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. + 381 pp., notes, references, contributors
From the bottom up: Participatory issues in fisheries management
Co‐management"; is among several slogans used to indicate a dissatisfaction with present systems and a movement to more decentralized systems of marine resource management. The authors note the necessary distinction between decentralization and participatory management and use comparative analyses of case studies of fisheries management systems in Scandinavian and North American countries and New Zealand to explore potentials for both decentraliz…
On Happiness
What do anthropologists have to say about happiness? For some contributors in this Vital Topics Forum, happiness is a sensory force that colors and shapes human evolution and experience. Others consider happiness, or the lack thereof, to be a faceted reflection of the arrangements in society. All recognize the potential power of human happiness, where a distant memory, fleeting experience, or idealized vision can serve as a driving force in trans…
Optimal foragers or political actors? ecological analyses of a New Jersey fishery
Recent trends in ecological anthropology are described and applied in an analysis of a New Jersey fishery. The difficulty of identifying environmental problems becomes apparent when trying to describe the temporal variability, pollution, restrictions on access, and depletion that characterize the marine environment of "Shoal Harbor," a diversified community of bay men and inshore fishermen not far from New York City. A set of hypotheses derived f…
A Fishermen's Cooperative, Limited: Indigenous Resource Management in a Complex Society
Bonnie J. McCay, A Fishermen's Cooperative, Limited: Indigenous Resource Management in a Complex Society, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 1, Special Issue: Maritime Anthropology (Jan., 1980), pp. 29-38
Comparison of Job Satisfaction in Six New Jersey Fisheries: Implications for Management
New Jersey's marine fisheries exhibit unusual diversity within a small geographical area-contrasting in terms of prey species, gear size and type, trip duration, seasonality, regulatory policies, and income levels. One might expect these differences to engender different patterns of job satisfaction. Based on a survey of several hundred fishermen, the paper compares baymen, oystermen, sea clarnmers, scallopers, draggers, and longliners with respe…
Concepts of Process in Social Science Explanations
Social scientists using one or another concept of process have paid little attention to underlying issues of methodology and explanation. Commonly, the concept used is a loose one. When it is not, there often are other problems, such as errors of reification and of assuming that events sometimes connected in a sequence are invariably thus connected. While it may be useful to retain the term " process" for some sequences of intelligibly connected …
Cumulative effects, creeping enclosure, and the marine commons of New Jersey
In response to declining fish stocks and increased societal concern, the marine ‘commons’ of New Jersey is no longer freely available to commercial and recreational fisheries. We discuss the concept of ‘creeping’ enclosure in relation to New Jersey’s marine fisheries and suggest that reduced access can be a cumulative process and function of multiple events and processes and need not be the result of a single regulatory moment. We begin with a sh…
The Pirates of Piscary: Ethnohistory of Illegal Fishing in New Jersey
This paper investigates piscatorial piracy-fish and shellfish poaching-in the past and present experience of commercial fishing communities of the Raritan Bay region of New Jersey. Ethnographic and historical research supports the following interpretations: piracy is cultural; it is a response to enclosure of the marine commons; and it is grounded in historical disputes over property rights in marine resources that suggest the importance of class…
Certifying the commons: Eco-Certification, Privatization, and Collective Action
We examine new dynamics of privatization and collective action in common pool resource situations facilitated by the nonstate multistakeholder institutions of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), the global leader in sustainability certification for wild caught seafood. Through a review of the literature and two case studies of fishing cooperatives in Baja California Sur, Mexico and on Fogo Island in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Lab…
Development Issues in Fisheries as Agrarian Systems
Expanding the boundaries of commons scholarship: The 2008 Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons
The landscapes, seascapes, and institutions of 'the commons' are products of the interactions between humans and their environments, and the IASC conference of 2008 was an opportunity to explore their many dimensions, from the local to the global. This issue of the International Journal of the Commons commemorates that conference, which was the 2008 international meeting of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), held i…
Robert McC. Netting and human ecology: An appreciation
The Appropriation of Nature: Essays on Human Ecology and Social Relations
New Directions in Ecology and Ecological Anthropology
In this essay we consider four criticisms of ecological anthropology: its overemphasis on energy, its inability to explain cultural phenomena, its preoccupation with static equilibria, and its lack of clarity about the appropriate units of analysis. Recognizing that some of these criticisms may not be justified, we nevertheless point to parallel concerns in ecology. Further, we ask whether new directions indicated by some ecologists might be appr…
Heterogeneity and uncertainty in ecological anthropology
Hardesty, Donald L. Ecological Anthropology. New York, John Wiley and Sons. 1977. viii + 310 pp. Tables, figures, references, glossary, and indexes. $12.95
Systems ecology, people ecology, and the anthropology of fishing communities
Medical Anthropology . George M. Foster and Barbara G. Anderson
A Fishermen's Cooperative, Limited: Indigenous Resource Management in a Complex Society
Bonnie J. McCay, A Fishermen's Cooperative, Limited: Indigenous Resource Management in a Complex Society, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 1, Special Issue: Maritime Anthropology (Jan., 1980), pp. 29-38
Development Issues in Fisheries as Agrarian Systems
Development Issues in Fisheries as Agrarian Systems
Optimal foragers or political actors? ecological analyses of a New Jersey fishery
Recent trends in ecological anthropology are described and applied in an analysis of a New Jersey fishery. The difficulty of identifying environmental problems becomes apparent when trying to describe the temporal variability, pollution, restrictions on access, and depletion that characterize the marine environment of "Shoal Harbor," a diversified community of bay men and inshore fishermen not far from New York City. A set of hypotheses derived f…
The Pirates of Piscary: Ethnohistory of Illegal Fishing in New Jersey
This paper investigates piscatorial piracy-fish and shellfish poaching-in the past and present experience of commercial fishing communities of the Raritan Bay region of New Jersey. Ethnographic and historical research supports the following interpretations: piracy is cultural; it is a response to enclosure of the marine commons; and it is grounded in historical disputes over property rights in marine resources that suggest the importance of class…
"Comments on "Any Comments on the Sociology Section, Tony
Technology Adoption Among Cape May Fishermen
We discuss the innovation process in the technologically sophisticated and heavily-capitalized commercial fishery of Cape May, New Jersey. Data from interviews with 46 fishing captains suggest that decisions to adopt new techniques or other innovations are linked to expectations about future fishing opportunities and assessments of current returns from fishing, as well as to vessel replacement value, an index of socio-economic position. These fac…
The Question of the commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources
Applied Anthropology: Stewart Island: Anthropological Perspectives on a New Zealand Fishing Community . Hal B. Levine and Marlene Wolfzahn Levine
The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History
The Appropriation of Nature: Essays on Human Ecology and Social Relations
The benefits of the commons
Applied Anthropology: “To Each His Own”: William Coaker and the Fishermen's Protective Union in Newfoundland Politics, 1908–1925 . Ian D. H. McDonald
To Work and to Weep: Women in Fishing Economies
The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-two years later
Planting Clams in New Jersey: The Analyst as Agent
In his article "The Agent as Analyst" (Journal of Cooperative Education, 1967), Art Gallaher emphasized the importance of extension agents' roles as analysts as well as their roles as advisors, advocates, and innovators. He was addressing people whose profession is agricultural extension, and he was trying to underscore the importance of their analytic skills in interpreting the situation of clients. My situation is different in that I am an "ana…
Comparison of Job Satisfaction in Six New Jersey Fisheries: Implications for Management
New Jersey's marine fisheries exhibit unusual diversity within a small geographical area-contrasting in terms of prey species, gear size and type, trip duration, seasonality, regulatory policies, and income levels. One might expect these differences to engender different patterns of job satisfaction. Based on a survey of several hundred fishermen, the paper compares baymen, oystermen, sea clarnmers, scallopers, draggers, and longliners with respe…
The Origins of Human Disease. Thomas McKeown
Concepts of Process in Social Science Explanations
Social scientists using one or another concept of process have paid little attention to underlying issues of methodology and explanation. Commonly, the concept used is a loose one. When it is not, there often are other problems, such as errors of reification and of assuming that events sometimes connected in a sequence are invariably thus connected. While it may be useful to retain the term " process" for some sequences of intelligibly connected …
Fisherwomen, fisheries policy, and maritime anthropology
Allison, Charlene J., Sue‐Ellen Jacobs, and Mary A. Porter. Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. xliv + 203 pp. including time‐line, photographs, map, place‐name locator, glossary, bibliography, and index. $25.00 cloth. Cole, Sally, Women of the Praia: Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xvii + 189 pp. including photographs…
From the bottom up: Participatory issues in fisheries management
Co‐management"; is among several slogans used to indicate a dissatisfaction with present systems and a movement to more decentralized systems of marine resource management. The authors note the necessary distinction between decentralization and participatory management and use comparative analyses of case studies of fisheries management systems in Scandinavian and North American countries and New Zealand to explore potentials for both decentraliz…
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