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dc.contributor.authorSønvisen, Signe Annie
dc.contributor.authorThorvaldsen, Trine
dc.contributor.authorJohnsen, Jahn Petter
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-06T10:00:58Z
dc.date.available2017-09-06T10:00:58Z
dc.date.issued2017-07-12
dc.description.abstractBody Mass Index (BMI) is not only the prevailing tool used for defining and diagnosing obesity, but it is also a tool that intervenes into fisheries governance, and into fishers’ lives and bodies. All fishers on board vessels over 100 gross tons (GT) must hold a seaman’s licence; too high a BMI may lead to a “loss-of-licence” and the inability to undertake their occupation. From a governmentality perspective, this paper discusses the use of the seaman’s licence and explores how BMI may be an instrument in fisheries governance. We examine how safety policies link to storylines around health and obesity to produce healthy and safe fishers, and how this in turn links to the overall objective of governmentality: to produce productive labourers (fishers). We explore the multiple materialities of the BMI by looking at Norwegian fisheries’ safety policies from a Foucauldian perspective and question the wider implications of a safety policy focused on BMI and obesity.en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40152-017-0063-7> http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40152-017-0063-7 </a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationSønvisen SA, Thorvaldsen T, Johnsen JP. Governing the fisher body – safety as body-politics and fisheries governance . Maritime Studies. 2017;16(9):1-20en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1482000
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s40152-017-0063-7
dc.identifier.issn1872-7859
dc.identifier.issn2212-9790
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/11409
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen_US
dc.relation.journalMaritime Studies
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Landbruks- og Fiskerifag: 900::Fiskerifag: 920::Andre fiskerifag: 929en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Fisheries science: 920::Other fisheries disciplines: 929en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Community medicine, Social medicine: 801en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Samfunnsmedisin, sosialmedisin: 801en_US
dc.titleGoverning the fisher body – safety as body-politics and fisheries governanceen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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