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dc.contributor.authorMenon, Ajit
dc.contributor.authorSowman, Merle
dc.contributor.authorBavinck, Jan Maarten
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-29T12:47:53Z
dc.date.available2019-03-29T12:47:53Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek; NWO)en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10461-230427> https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10461-230427</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMenon, A., Sowman, M. &, Bavinck, J.M. (2018). Rethinking capitalist transformation of fisheries in South Africa and India. <i>Ecology and society, 23</i>(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10461-230427en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1683582
dc.identifier.doi10.5751/ES-10461-230427
dc.identifier.issn1708-3087
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/15106
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherResilience Allianceen_US
dc.relation.journalEcology & society
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Fisheries science: 920en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Landbruks- og Fiskerifag: 900::Fiskerifag: 920en_US
dc.titleRethinking capitalist transformation of fisheries in South Africa and Indiaen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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