Global politics around fisheries are complex and contentious. Embedded within this sector, small-scale fishers’ movements are continuously confronted with new actors, issues and conflicting interests. Yet, these movements and their political agendas have played a critical role in global fisheries. This book offers an insightful exploration and analysis of two transnational movements — the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers (WFF) — tracing their origins, development, struggles and engagement in international political spaces. It explores three overlapping 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.
Price: $25.00
Pages: 188
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Series: Critical Development Studies
Publication Date:
13 April 2023
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781773635941
Format: Paperback
“Global Fishers: The Politics of Transnational Movements by Elyse Mills is a pathbreaking book about a very important but largely overlooked transnational social movement. It is a modern classic in the making. All academic researchers and activists interested in social justice and a positive future of humanity must read this book.”
— Saturnino M. Borras Jr., co-author of Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements
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
