Envisioning desirable futures in small-scale fisheries

A Transdisciplinary Arts-Based Co-Creation Process

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ID4239232
AutoresIgnacio Gianelli (0000-0001-7449-7935), Micaela Trimble (0000-0002-1971-4471), Silvana Juri (0000-0002-0434-0403), Nazarena Beretta, Denisse Torena (0000-0002-2014-5528), Manuela Acosta, Robert Acosta, Mario Del Bó, Jorge Fuster, Vanessa González (0000-0001-5524-4465), Diego Kurta, Marcelo Kurta, Tamara López (0000-0001-8766-1896), María Marfetán, Pablo Montes De Oca, Pablo Montes de, Alberto Morales (0000-0003-4706-2041), Alberto Castillo Morales, Victoria Pardo, Victoria Mazoteras Pardo, Juan Sandoval (0000-0003-4648-2757), Nancy Schuch, Claudio Taroco, Albert Norström, Albert V Norström (0000-0002-0706-9233), Laura Pereira (0000-0002-4996-7234), Villasante (0000-0001-6296-4479), Sebastian Villasante
Año2024
Volumen29
Número1
Fecha de publicación2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaConservation Ecology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087
EditorialResilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.5751/es-14869-290120
OpenAlexW4392007447
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas48

Despite the critical importance of small-scale fisheries for food security and well-being and the role of fishers as stewards of aquatic ecosystems, their future is uncertain. Tackling narratives that portray small-scale fisheries as obsolete, disparate, and inefficient requires collectively imagining and articulating new, creative, and inspiring narratives that reflect their real contributions and enable transformative futures. Drawing on a transdisciplinary country-level case study, we analyze the process and outcomes of co-creating desirable, plural, and meaningful visions of the future for small-scale fisheries in Uruguay. Using an arts-based approach and leveraging the agency of emerging innovative initiatives throughout the country, different food system actors (fish workers, chefs, entrepreneurs) and knowledge systems (local, experience-based, and scientific) were engaged in a creative visioning process. The results of this arts-based co-creation process include (1) a series of desirable visions and narratives, synthesized into an artistic boundary object; and (2) the stepping stones to a transformative space for collective reflection, learning, and action. Although the artistic boundary object has proven instrumental among multiple and diverse participants, the transformative space encouraged academic and non-academic participants to plan collective actions and to feel more confident, motivated, and optimistic about the future of small-scale fisheries in Uruguay. With this paper we provide a tool, a platform, and a roadmap to counter the dominant bleak narrative, while also communicating the elements that constitute desirable futures for small-scale fisheries in Uruguay. On a broader scale, our contribution reinforces the emerging narrative of the key role that small-scale fisheries have, and will play, in local and global food systems

Anthropocene · Biology · Business · Cartography · Co-Creation · Environmental resource management · Fishery · Futures contract · Geography · Transdisciplinarity · Coastal and Marine Management · Computer Science · Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education · Environmental Science · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Ecology