Shadow ecologies of conservation: Co-production of salmon landscapes in Hokkaido, Japan, and southern Chile

Swanson, Heather Anne

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.018

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“…In this way our paper responds to Buller's recent call for research that engages with "the contexts and manners in which ethics are formed, performed and reformed through multiple human-animal interactions" (Buller, 2015, p. 5; also see Bear and Eden, 2011;Ginn et al, 2014;Keul, 2013;Lorimer, 2006). Our work also hopes to contribute to existing scholarship on Atlantic salmon conservation in the region (Parenteau 1998(Parenteau , 2004, and to broader debates on salmon conservation in a global context (Swanson 2015).…”

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confidence: 77%

Conservation and care: material politics and Atlantic salmon on Newfoundland’s Gander River

Daniels

Mather

2017

Maritime Studies

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This paper aims to contribute to an emerging and vibrant body of post-structural scholarship situated within science technology and society (STS) on practices and their role in world making. Our focus is Atlantic salmon conservation in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. We examine the different material and social orders that have over time connected human and salmon bodies. These different socio-material orders do not exist in harmony. On the contrary, they are in tension and reflect different visions/versions of how to conserve and care for Atlantic salmon. Our contribution is to interfere with the dominant narrative of Atlantic salmon conservation by drawing on the concept of care, and by introducing a new salmon that we call the willful salmon.

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Conservation and care: material politics and Atlantic salmon on Newfoundland’s Gander River

Daniels

Mather

2017

Maritime Studies

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“…But closed farms, in which eggs are laid in captivity, are also argued to be conducive to crocodile conservation in that they provide a readily accessible, quality‐controlled product that reduces demand on wild‐caught crocs. This is the sort of linkage that Swanson () highlights in which geographically (and structurally) distant ecologies are interconnected through political economic processes. I shall add, with reference to the material presented here, that crocodile farms and conservation of wild crocodiles are linked by distant social engagements as well.…”

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Precious reptiles: Social engagement and placemaking with saltwater crocodiles

Baynes-Rock

2018

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In this paper I take up the call to expand the boundaries of social and physical landscapes in order to recognise the creative agencies of human and non-human actors. In doing so, I wish to draw attention to the ways in which relations between both individuals and collectives combine to shape multi-dimensional sociality in particular places. The place in question is a crocodile farm in tropical Australia. It is a curious place in that it was fostered by modes of objectification which serve to commoditise and conserve crocodiles at a species level with little attention to individuality. However, the particularity of crocodiles at the farming level compels their human handlers to make concessions to their demands. Crocodiles, by their refusals, attachments and individualities, elicit attention to their needs, which translates into practices and structures that are often at odds with profitability. In this way it is as much social processes as it is practicalities of producing skins which affect the farmed landscape and the beings it produces, creating a nexus of multispecies place-making where individuals matter.animal agency, co-shaping places, crocodile farming, domestication, human-animal relations, niche construction 1 | INTRODUCTION My project here is to expand the bounds of sociality in order that more-than-humans might be regarded as engaged in social relations. More specifically, my focus will be on the "varied trajectories" (Tsing, 2013, p. 34) along which particular humans and, in this case, crocodiles engage to co-construct landscapes in ways both conceptual and physical. Rather than a carefully planned landscape of human intention, the crocodile farm is a result of what happens when crocodiles and humans are "socially engaged" (Baynes-Rock, 2013). It is a place of crocodile and human "becomings," where threads of materiality connect individuals within formative processes (Ingold & Palsson, 2013); where the landscape is "co-fabricated between more-than-human bodies and a lively earth" (Whatmore, 2006, p. 603). The layout and structures of a crocodile farm are not simply the offspring of human norms, ideas and practices, but emerge as social constructions. They are unplanned places that result from the ways in which humans and crocodiles are engaged socially. Following this vein, I hope to draw attention to the lived experiences of individuals and collectives and how these co-shape practices and places in a farming context.With regard to framing the crocodile farm as a place of making and being made by interspecies relations, I am drawn to the concept of niche construction. Fuentes (2010) applies this concept to better appreciate how humans and others combine to shape the parameters within which selective processes operate. This overturns the notion of domestication as a process of human control over a passive natural other and reassembles it as essentially social and reciprocal (Clutton-Brock, 1989, p. 7). The concept of niche construction holds that organisms are not simply subject to the selective pre...

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“…From the beginning, those investing in Chilean aquaculture were geographically removed from the areas where the industry operated. Salmon aquaculture in Chile began in the 1960s in the Los Lagos Region, when Japanese firms began exploring the feasibility of salmon aquaculture in Chile with backing from the Japanese government (Swanson 2015). During the Pinochet Dictatorship (1973–1990) the Chilean state prioritized this kind of foreign investment.…”

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Sanitary Crises and “No Contact” Aquaculture: Chilean Fish Farming During the Pandemic

Thomas¹

2021

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has inspired novel strategies for keeping worksites operational and workers safe, with varying degrees of success. In southern Chile, where more than a third of the world’s farmed salmon is produced, the industrial aquaculture sector has been largely successful at avoiding major disruptions and financial losses by mobilizing strategies developed during previous sanitary crises that threatened the health of fish and the industry itself. Here, I engage with the literature on crises and disasters to evaluate these strategies as well as their unintended consequences. I contend that many of the strategies developed to address COVID‐19 as a sanitary crisis and prevent the spread of the virus have deepened the divisions between aquaculture firms and the remote coastal communities where they operate. These social and economic divisions have the potential to undermine the industry’s long‐term viability.

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Shadow ecologies of conservation: Co-production of salmon landscapes in Hokkaido, Japan, and southern Chile

Cited by 29 publications

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Conservation and care: material politics and Atlantic salmon on Newfoundland’s Gander River

Conservation and care: material politics and Atlantic salmon on Newfoundland’s Gander River

Precious reptiles: Social engagement and placemaking with saltwater crocodiles

Sanitary Crises and “No Contact” Aquaculture: Chilean Fish Farming During the Pandemic

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