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OverviewThere is now widespread agreement that fish stocks are severely depleted and fishing activity must be limited. At the same time, the promise of the green economy appears to offer profitable new opportunities for a sustainable seafood industry. What do these seemingly contradictory ideas of natural limits and green growth mean in practice? What do they tell us more generally about current transformations to the way nature is valued and managed? And who suffers and who benefits from these new ecological arrangements? Far from abstract policy considerations, Patrick Bresnihan shows how new approaches to environmental management are transforming the fisheries and generating novel forms of exclusion in the process. Transforming the Fisheries examines how scientific, economic, and regulatory responses to the problem of overfishing have changed over the past twenty years. Based on fieldwork in a commercial fishing port in Ireland, Bresnihan weaves together ethnography, science, history, and social theory to explore the changing relationships between knowledge, nature, and the market. For Bresnihan, many of the key concepts that govern contemporary environmental thinking-such as scarcity, sustainability, the commons, and enclosure-should be reconsidered in light of the collapse of global fish stocks and the different ways this problem is being addressed. Only by considering these concepts anew can we begin to reinvent the ecological commons we need for the future. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patrick BresnihanPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.503kg ISBN: 9780803254251ISBN 10: 0803254253 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 01 April 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Ecological Crises and Beyond2. The End of the Line: Scarcity, Liberalism, and Enclosure3. Stewards of the Sea: Neoliberalism and the Making of the Environmental Entrepreneur4. Community-Managed Resources: A “Third Way” for Environmental Governance5. The More-Than-Human Commons: From Commons to Commoning6. Conclusion: Neoliberalism and the CommonsNotesBibliographyIndexReviewsTransforming the Fisheries is a milestone in current debates on the commons. It not only offers an insightful discussion of the many radically divergent approaches to the commons and their complex relations to politics, but also provides a framework for rethinking and expanding the commons beyond its intense liberal and humanist entanglements. It introduces an understanding of the commons as a shared practice of socio-material experimentation. Dimitris Papadopoulos, coauthor of Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century --Dimitris Papadopoulos (09/15/2015) Author InformationPatrick Bresnihan is an assistant professor in environmental geography at Trinity College, Dublin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |