Property rights, nationalisation and extractive industries in Bolivia and Ecuador

Arsel, Murat; Mena, Carlos F.; Pellegrini, Lorenzo; Radhuber, Isabella M.

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“…Keeping these developments in mind, political ecologists have debated the extent that such transformations of the fisheries sector constitute capitalist transformation, given the socioeconomic inequities (Smith 1990, Eide et al 2011, Fabinyi et al 2015, socio-cultural disruptions (Kurien 2003, Davis andRuddle 2012), and ecological devastation (FAO 2005(FAO , 2016 that capitalism can produce (Harvey 2004). Broadly speaking, this literature can be divided into two: (1) literature that problematizes to what extent modern industrialized fisheries are capitalist in nature (van Ginkel 2015, Høst 2016), and (2) literature that examines the impact of growing industrialized fishing fleets on "small-scale" fisheries (Stobutzki et al 2006, Bavinck et al 2014, Pinkerton 2017.…”

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“…South Africa and India offer an interesting comparison. Although both countries are "democracies," relatively similar in terms of strategies of economic growth and welfare provision, and firmly entrenched in the global capitalist economy, the industrialization of fisheries in South Africa and India took place in very different circumstances-the former in the context of colonialism and apartheid, and the latter in a postindependence drive to improve fisher welfare, increase food security, and promote exports (Crosoer et al 2006, Bavinck et al 2014. Moreover, whereas India's small-scale fisheries sector encompasses millions of people, South Africa's is relatively small, estimated to be less than a 100,000, including those involved in preharvest and postharvest activities.…”

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Rethinking capitalist transformation of fisheries in South Africa and India

Menon¹,

Bavinck²

2018

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The industrialization of fisheries and the growth of a capitalist sector within fisheries have received considerable scholarly attention. For the most part, scholars have emphasized how capitalism has led to privatization of the commons, forced small-scale resource users into wage labor, and marginalized the sector. This analysis does not, however, explain the continued presence of such a vibrant and important small-scale sector in fisheries throughout the world. Drawing on the notion of Foucauldian governmentality, other scholars have argued that the small-scale sector or what they term the "need economy" is a product of primitive accumulation. The state must, in conditions of democracy, address the welfare needs of all those who have been dispossessed in order to govern. We engage with this theorization in the context of fisheries and argue that seeing small-scale fisheries only as a product of primitive accumulation and Foucauldian governmentality ignores the moral economies of these fisheries. By analyzing capitalist transformation of fisheries in two "democratic" countries, South Africa and India, we highlight how small-scale fishers resist increasing marginalization and how governments have afforded a measure of protection to this sector, and confirm the importance of their moral economies to sustainable and equitable fisheries in the future.

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Rethinking capitalist transformation of fisheries in South Africa and India

Menon¹,

Bavinck²

2018

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“…However, in an increasingly interconnected world, fishing communities are usually interlinked with and impacted by processes originating at supra-local levels (Berkes 2008;Bavinck et al 2014). Commons scholars have extensively engaged with the multi-level drivers of institutional erosion.…”

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The elusive quest for access and collective action: North Sri Lankan fishers’ thwarted struggles against a foreign trawler fleet

Scholtens

2016

Int J Commons

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Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to further the understanding of how unequal access to commons is (re)produced and contested. I do so by looking into the thwarted struggle of small-scale fishers in post-war Northern Sri Lanka to contest encroachment of an Indian trawler fleet. I contend that for understanding marginality in the commons we need to make two conceptual shifts in understanding resource access and collective action: one is from access as a bundle of rights to access as a bundle of powers (Ribot and Peluso 2003); and two is from collective action geared at fostering institutions for resource stewardship towards collective action geared at contesting marginalizing access mechanisms. This paper uses this political perspective to explain how Indian trawlers' superior technology and political agency allow them to illegally operate in Sri Lankan waters, and prevent North Sri Lankan fishers to rebuild a livelihood after decades of war. I subsequently demonstrate that fishers are unable to collectively challenge this status quo due to political repression by the Sri Lankan government, the post-war erosion of fisheries cooperatives, and fishers' inability to articulate and politicize their Tamil identity. This elusive quest for access and collective action has forced fishers into silent and cynical adaptation to the reality of trawler intrusions. I conclude that struggles for resource access are not only struggles for legitimate property rights, but also about the ability to influence the multiple mechanisms of access through processes of contestatory collective action.

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Expressions of Tenure in South Africa in the Context of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines

Sunde

2017

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Property rights, nationalisation and extractive industries in Bolivia and Ecuador

Cited by 5 publications

References 128 publications

Rethinking capitalist transformation of fisheries in South Africa and India

Rethinking capitalist transformation of fisheries in South Africa and India

The elusive quest for access and collective action: North Sri Lankan fishers’ thwarted struggles against a foreign trawler fleet

Expressions of Tenure in South Africa in the Context of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines

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