Revaluing Coastal Fisheries [electronic resource] : How Small Boats Navigate New Markets and Technology /
Dobeson, Alexander.author.
This book illustrates and explains the consequences of neoliberal reform on rural economies. Based on an ethnographic case study of coastal fisheries in Iceland, it poses the following questions: How are rural fishers navigating liberal capitalism? And how are new markets, property-rights and digital technologies transforming rural economies? By drawing on an extensive body of literature on economic sociology and science and technology studies, the book offers a novel understanding of the role of market-based reform for rural development.
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Fishing in market-based resource management -- Chapter 3. Economising rural independence -- Chapter 4. The practice of fishing -- Chapter 5. Enframing the sea -- Chapter 6. When the fish ignore the market -- Chapter 7. Fishing for quality -- Chapter 8. The fishery panopticon -- Chapter 9. A new culture of liberal rural capitalism -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index .
This book illustrates and explains the consequences of neoliberal reform on rural economies. Based on an ethnographic case study of coastal fisheries in Iceland, it poses the following questions: How are rural fishers navigating liberal capitalism? And how are new markets, property-rights and digital technologies transforming rural economies? By drawing on an extensive body of literature on economic sociology and science and technology studies, the book offers a novel understanding of the role of market-based reform for rural development.
Human Geography.
Geography.
Cultural geography.
Environmental management.
Human Geography.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Economic Geography.
Cultural Geography.
Environmental Management.