• Forging connections, pursuing social justice: a tribute to Maarten Bavinck’s conceptual and institution-building contributions to maritime studies 

      Scholtens, Joeri; Johnson, Derek; Jentoft, Svein; Ros-Tonen, Mirjam; Chuenpagdee, Ratana; Gupta, Joyeeta; Kraan, Marloes; Menon, Ajit; Roth, Dik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-30)
      This paper is written in recognition of the contributions that Maarten Bavinck has made to the field of maritime studies and for the inspiration that he has been for many. It is hard to separate Maarten’s academic and institution-building contributions from his personal qualities, particularly his interest in human relationships. Maarten’s aptitude for building bridges between people, ideas, and ...
    • 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 ...