• Broadening the perspective on ocean privatizations: an interdisciplinary social science enquiry 

      Schülter, Achim; Bavinck, Jan Maarten; Hadjimichael, Maria; Partelow, Stefan; Said, Alicia; Ertör, Irmak (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Privatization of the ocean, in the sense of defining more exclusive property rights, is taking place in increasingly diverse ways. Because of more intensive and diversified use patterns and increasing sustainability challenges, it is likely that this process will continue into the future. We argue that the nature of privatization varies from one oceanic domain to another. We differentiate four ...
    • The impact of coastal grabbing on community conservation – a global reconnaissance 

      Bavinck, Jan Maarten; Berkes, Fikret; Charles, Anthony; Dias, Ana Carolina Esteves; Doubleday, Nancy; Nayak, Prateep; Sowman, Merle (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-14)
      "Coastal grab" refers to the contested appropriation of coastal (shore and inshore) space and resources by outside interests. This paper explores the phenomenon of coastal grabbing and the effects of such appropriation on community-based conservation of local resources and environment. The approach combines social-ecological systems analysis with socio-legal property rights studies. Evidence of ...
    • Implications of legal pluralism for socio-technical transition studies–scrutinizing the ascendancy of the ring seine fishery in India 

      Bavinck, Jan Maarten (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-27)
      This paper considers the contribution of legal pluralism scholarship to the field of socio-technical transition studies. Making use of a case study on the changeover to ring seine fishing in India, it pays particular attention to the implications of legal pluralism – or the co-existence of multiple legal systems in a societal field – for the stability of such transitions. Ring seine fishing ...
    • Informing a conservation policy-praxis disjuncture: A ‘commons’ perspective to tackling coastal-marine community-conserved area implementation in South Africa 

      Rice, Wayne Stanley; Sowman, Merle; Bavinck, Jan Maarten (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-19)
      Conventional ‘people-free’ conservation often fails to deliver both social and ecological outcomes. Communitybased conservation (CBC) – which is underpinned by local community participation, knowledge and priorities – offers a viable alternative in certain contexts. We explore the applicability of established ‘commons’ design principles, and factors enabling community-based conservation, to ...
    • Rethinking capitalist transformation of fisheries in South Africa and India 

      Menon, Ajit; Sowman, Merle; Bavinck, Jan Maarten (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      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 ...
    • Transboundary research in fisheries 

      Song, Andrew M.; Scholtens, Joeri; Stephen, Johny; Bavinck, Jan Maarten; Chuenpagdee, Ratana (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-18)
      Spatial boundaries have become an indispensable part of regimes and tools for regulating fisheries, with examples including marine protected areas, regional fisheries management organizations and Exclusive Economic Zones. Yet, it is also widely acknowledged that boundaries are a social construct, which may be resisted by both fishers and fish ecology. The ensuing spatial and institutional mismatches ...
    • Transforming conflicts from the bottom-up? Reflections on civil society efforts to empower marginalized fishers in postwar Sri Lanka 

      Scholtens, Joeri; Bavinck, Jan Maarten (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We analyze the efforts of an international consortium of academics and activists to understand and address a transnational fisheries conflict in South Asia. The so-called REINCORPFISH project (2010–2016) focused on an asymmetrical conflict between trawler fishers from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu who frequently transgress into Sri Lankan waters and northern Sri Lankan fishers, whose livelihoods ...