Sea of secrets
Imagining illicit fishing in Robert Barclay'sMeļaļand Rob Stewart'sSharkwater
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Teresa Shewry |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-59 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2011.574859 |
| OpenAlex | W2129776059 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This essay analyses the way in which contemporary literature and film critically respond to criminalized fishing practices in the Pacific, at a time of severe marine environmental degradation. It argues that in the documentary film Sharkwater (2006). Rob Stewart works to designate the shark fin industry as illicit, placing shark fishers on the margins of ethical and social life. Stewart’s emphasis on the marginal status of shark fishers is complicated, however, by his awareness of the complex network of economy, state, environment and culture within which illegal shark fishing takes place. In Meļaļ: A Novel of the Pacific (2002), Robert Barclay is also concerned with marine ecological degradation and criminalized fishing. Like Stewart, Barclay situates criminalized fishing within the context of the capitalist economy, but he also shows that illegal fishing in the Marshall Islands takes place in the context of multiple colonialisms and military occupations. Barclay suggests more sharply than Stewart that the language of illegal fishing diminishes the possibilities for meaningful understandings of ecological degradation and social justice at sea
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Environmental degradation · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Fishery · Fishing · Geography · Political science · Seascape · Sociology · State (computer science · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Ecology · Law · Philosophy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |