Blue Justice and the co-production of hermeneutical resources for small-scale fisheries
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26339Date
2022-02-01Type
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Abstract
Blue Justice emerges as a counternarrative to the promise and commitment to Blue Economy and Blue Growth by
shifting imperatives for growth and innovation to the central role played by small-scale fisheries and social
justice in sustainable ocean development. To instrument Blue Justice, it is important to understand injustices
experienced by small-scale fisheries people which can range from accusations of disregard for the environment to
equating their fishing practices as illegal, or even the sudden usurpation of their customary fishing grounds and
means of livelihoods. Drawing on Fricker’s concept of epistemic injustice, we examine how discrimination and
lack of interpretative concepts to communicate unjust experiences wrongs small-scale fisheries people in their
capacity as knowledge holders and subjects them to testimonial and hermeneutical injustice. We examine 20
testimonies of injustices experienced by small-scale fisheries people collected by the Global Research Network
“Too Big To Ignore” (TBTI) and suggest a glossary of new concepts that can be used to interpret these experiences. Our results exemplify the presence of epistemic injustice, emphasizing the need to associate injustices in
small-scale fisheries with non-conventional terms or concepts. We discuss the contribution of transdisciplinary
research for providing such concepts and the potential role of social scientists and action researchers to enhance
collective hermeneutical resources and thereby advance the goal of Blue Justice for small-scale fisheries.
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Arias Schreiber, Chuenpagdee, Jentoft. Blue Justice and the co-production of hermeneutical resources for small-scale fisheries. Marine Policy. 2022;137Metadata
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