Rethinking capitalist transformation of fisheries in South Africa and India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4240163 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ajit Menon (0000-0001-8857-003X, Madras Institute of Development Studies), Merle Sowman (0000-0001-8156-8121, University of Cape Town), Maarten Bavinck (0000-0001-9398-9310, Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-10461-230427 |
| OpenAlex | W2899979930 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 25 |
The industrialization of fisheries and the growth of a capitalist sector within fisheries have received considerable scholarly attention. For the most part, scholars have emphasized how capitalism has led to privatization of the commons, forced small-scale resource users into wage labor, and marginalized the sector. This analysis does not, however, explain the continued presence of such a vibrant and important small-scale sector in fisheries throughout the world. Drawing on the notion of Foucauldian governmentality, other scholars have argued that the small-scale sector or what they term the "need economy" is a product of primitive accumulation. The state must, in conditions of democracy, address the welfare needs of all those who have been dispossessed in order to govern. We engage with this theorization in the context of fisheries and argue that seeing small-scale fisheries only as a product of primitive accumulation and Foucauldian governmentality ignores the moral economies of these fisheries. By analyzing capitalist transformation of fisheries in two "democratic" countries, South Africa and India, we highlight how small-scale fishers resist increasing marginalization and how governments have afforded a measure of protection to this sector, and confirm the importance of their moral economies to sustainable and equitable fisheries in the future
Biology · Fishery · Geography · Political science · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
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Beyond Morality
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Agrarian Political Economy
Estimating the Worldwide Extent of Illegal Fishing
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The Question of the commons
The tyranny of the past
The Megaengineering of Ocean Fisheries
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Shorelines
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The Political Economy of Marine Fisheries Development in Indonesia
Diverse economies
Penetration of Capitalism and Persistence of Small-scale Organizational Forms in Third World Fisheries
Transforming asymmetrical conflicts over natural resources in the Global South
The Drive Towards Mechanization of SmallScale Fisheries in Kerala
The Spatially Splintered State
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The Moral Economy of the Peasant
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |