Contemporary politics around fisheries are complex and contentious. Fishers’ movements and their political agendas have played a critical role in global fisheries, particularly in the context of rural and environmental transformations. This book explores two transnational movements representing small-scale fishers — the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers (WFF). It brings the politics of these movements into academic and political debates by exploring three connected analytical spheres: transnational movements contesting and seeking to influence the politics of global fisheries; international political spaces movements are prioritizing; and contentious fisheries issues movements are struggling over. This book draws upon political economy and political ecology debates, focusing its multi-layered analytical approach on socio-ecological dynamics of fisheries politics.
Price: $22.00
Pages: 192
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date:
13 April 2023
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781773635941
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural
“This is a very well researched and written book that will make an important contribution to the scholarship and practice of transnational fishers’ movements and social movements more broadly. The text provides a valuable overview of two key network organizations at the centre of fishers’ movements and traces their origins, development, and engagement in contemporary transnational political spaces.”
Elyse Noble Mills is a program associate for the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, working with fishers’ organizations on international processes and campaigns. She has a PhD from the International Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands, where her research focused on the politics of transnational fishers’ movements and global fisheries.
Chapter 1:: Introduction: Diving into the Politics of Transnational ‘Fisheries Justice’ Movements
Chapter 2: : Three Waves of Development in Global Fisheries: Industrialization, Privatization, Conservation
Chapter 3: : Transnational Fishers’ Movements: Birth, Consolidation, Evolution and Contestation
Chapter 4: : International Political Spaces: Movements as Actors in Fisheries, Food and Climate Governance
Chapter 5: : Contentious Fisheries Issues: At the Heart of Social and Political Struggles
Conclusion: : Capacities, Alliances, Critical Voices and the Future of Fisheries Justice
