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Fishing for Nature: The Politics of Subjectivity and Emotion in Scottish Inshore Fisheries Management
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In this paper, the authors explored the relational emergence of subjects, emotions, and socionatures and their consequences for Scottish inshore fishery management and found that fishing subjectivities are highly political and produce emotional and practi...Abstract:
This paper explores the relational emergence of subjects, emotions, and socionatures and their consequences for Scottish inshore fishery management. Using a conception of the embodied spatial production of individual and collective subjectivities, and the ‘ambivalence’ of the subject, I explore why some fishers are committed to sustaining the fishing ground and others are not. Many people who work the land or the sea have a deep respect for and attachment to those environments, but overexploit them to make a living. How is it that people whose livelihoods depend on ‘natural’ environments embody apparently contradictory relationships with those environments? I probe such contradictions by exploring how the boundaries between subjects and environments are formed, and the consequences for Scottish inshore fisheries management of such boundary un/making. Using work from socionature, subjectivity, and emotional geographies, I show how fishing subjectivities are highly political and produce emotional and practi...read more
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