“…While some commentators would welcome new employment opportunities in structurally weak regions, critics of the current reform fear that small‐scale fishers will be squeezed out through fishing rights re‐allocations, individual quota management systems, and the conversion of common coastal spaces into industrialised aquaculture zones (Suzuki, 2017; Yagi, 2020). Shortly before the reform bill was passed in December 2018, opinions at Saga FCA administrations varied (interviews November 2018), from one Saga Genkai JF representative's complacent conviction that ‘[t]hey would never be able to go against the will of the cooperative,’ to the more anxious assessment by the head of Kariya JF:It is a very worrying development … Most fishers are in no position to make new investments, only the companies with some capital power are.…”
Section: Dispossession Through Revitalization?mentioning
Based on in‐depth anthropological field research in rural Japan, this paper analyses the ongoing reform of Japanese fishery governance and its social and environmental justice implications, as globally proliferating discourses on the ‘blue economy’ and ‘blue growth’ are driving the enclosure of one of the last vestiges of natural resource commons in small‐scale fisheries. Coastal fisheries in Japan are often idealized as one of the last bastions of resource co‐management in an industrialized country, with local cooperatives collectively controlling territorial fishing rights. However, demographic change, declining profitability, and dwindling resource stocks are challenging their viability. Reform of the fishery law, designed to stimulate new growth and industrialization – particularly in aquaculture – includes the opening up of coastal fishery resources to corporate investors, the strengthening of top‐down regulation, and the introduction of individual fishing quotas (IQ). The desire to boost domestic seafood production also has to be seen within the context of the double anxiety of high dependency on international trade for foodstuff and of Japan's vanishing rurality. This emphasis on private capital and presupposed economic and scientific rationality builds on the same rationale of blue economy and blue growth discourses, which promise financial along with ecological returns on large‐scale investments in sustainable ocean economies. Growth‐oriented reform in Japan now imperils successful resource co‐management in coastal small‐scale fisheries. Its analysis therefore offers deeper insights into the transformative as well as dispossessive potential of the global paradigmatic shift towards an intensified industrial exploitation of the oceans. The question of social and environmental justice is central in the re‐allocation of access rights to ocean spaces and resources and the re‐arrangement of decision‐making processes in fishery governance, as local fishing communities face a very real threat of dispossession and disempowerment.
“…While some commentators would welcome new employment opportunities in structurally weak regions, critics of the current reform fear that small‐scale fishers will be squeezed out through fishing rights re‐allocations, individual quota management systems, and the conversion of common coastal spaces into industrialised aquaculture zones (Suzuki, 2017; Yagi, 2020). Shortly before the reform bill was passed in December 2018, opinions at Saga FCA administrations varied (interviews November 2018), from one Saga Genkai JF representative's complacent conviction that ‘[t]hey would never be able to go against the will of the cooperative,’ to the more anxious assessment by the head of Kariya JF:It is a very worrying development … Most fishers are in no position to make new investments, only the companies with some capital power are.…”
Section: Dispossession Through Revitalization?mentioning
Based on in‐depth anthropological field research in rural Japan, this paper analyses the ongoing reform of Japanese fishery governance and its social and environmental justice implications, as globally proliferating discourses on the ‘blue economy’ and ‘blue growth’ are driving the enclosure of one of the last vestiges of natural resource commons in small‐scale fisheries. Coastal fisheries in Japan are often idealized as one of the last bastions of resource co‐management in an industrialized country, with local cooperatives collectively controlling territorial fishing rights. However, demographic change, declining profitability, and dwindling resource stocks are challenging their viability. Reform of the fishery law, designed to stimulate new growth and industrialization – particularly in aquaculture – includes the opening up of coastal fishery resources to corporate investors, the strengthening of top‐down regulation, and the introduction of individual fishing quotas (IQ). The desire to boost domestic seafood production also has to be seen within the context of the double anxiety of high dependency on international trade for foodstuff and of Japan's vanishing rurality. This emphasis on private capital and presupposed economic and scientific rationality builds on the same rationale of blue economy and blue growth discourses, which promise financial along with ecological returns on large‐scale investments in sustainable ocean economies. Growth‐oriented reform in Japan now imperils successful resource co‐management in coastal small‐scale fisheries. Its analysis therefore offers deeper insights into the transformative as well as dispossessive potential of the global paradigmatic shift towards an intensified industrial exploitation of the oceans. The question of social and environmental justice is central in the re‐allocation of access rights to ocean spaces and resources and the re‐arrangement of decision‐making processes in fishery governance, as local fishing communities face a very real threat of dispossession and disempowerment.
“…2) As announced before a ⋆ product approach is prefered to q-deform the phase space (we follow Ref. [14]).…”
Section: Classical Bfv-brst Chargesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…only q-deformation) there are some different methods [8], [9], [13], [14]. A powerful way of defining quantum mechanics as h-deformation of the classical one is to utilize the Moyal ⋆ product [15].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Properties of the h-q-deformed algebras are well established, but to investigate the classical case (i.e. only q-deformation) there are some different methods [8], [9], [13], [14]. A powerful way of defining quantum mechanics as h-deformation of the classical one is to utilize the Moyal ⋆ product [15].…”
BFV-BRST charge for q-deformed algebras is not unique. Different constructions of it in the classical as well as in the quantum phase space for the q-deformed algebra sl q (2) are discussed. Moreover, deformation of the phase space without deforming the generators of sl (2) is considered.h-qdeformation of the phase space is shown to yield the Witten's second deformation. To study the BFV-BRST cohomology problem when both the quantum phase space and the group are deformed, a two parameter deformation of sl(2) is proposed, and its BFV-BRST charge is given.
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