The continuation of family-based Artisanal fisheries is at risk in the context of neo-liberal globalization.  Neo-liberal approaches favour rationalized economic models of governance in which individualized property, rationalized modes of production and concentrated ownership  are prioritize over locality-based modes of harvest and governance.  Drawing upon a decade an a half of field research with fishers from the Bigouden region in Brittany, France this paper considers the neo-liberal arguments of efficiency and rationality as a mechanism of fisheries governance.  In this paper we consider the following questions: What aspects of neo-liberalism benefit community-based fisheries?  What aspects undermine these fisheries?  And, ultimately, is there a future for artisanal fishing communities in the era of neo-liberal gloabalization?

Why Worry About Artisanal Fishers in the Era of Neo-Liberal Globalization?

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The interview focusses on the cultural intolerance of the president of Taseko Mines and a letter of compaint he wrote to the federal minister of the environment.

CBC Daybreak South.

The interview focusses on the link between aboriginal rights and title and public concerns with the tarsands pipeline and tanker route.

CBC Daybreak North.

This presentation discusses the ways in which identity matters and yet does not matter in the context of Indigenous research and teaching.

Identity Matters; Identity Doesn't Matter.

This presentation was part of a full day symposium -hosted by the Centre for Culture, Identity, and Education (UBC)- that offered perspectives on the global environmental crisis from the lens of Indigenous knowledges. The diversity and plurality of Indigenous ways of knowing (traditional, academic, scientific and activist) was used to explore the impact of climate change on Indigenous communities, from the Cook Islands to Vancouver Island, as well as what constitutes Indigenous environmentalist responses at various sites and across different academic disciplines (e.g. anthropology, education, health sciences).  The plenary panel, “Shifting Tides: Indigenous Responses to Global Climate Change” was composed of Indigenous figures from Pacific Peoples’ Partnership, Vancouver Island and the Koutu Nui of the Cook Islands.  Other panels, which included UBC faculty, visiting scholars, the UBC Environment Caucus and graduate student representatives addressed “Indigeneity, Environmentalism and the Disciplines” and  “More Environmentalisms” (i.e. not necessarily Indigenous) .  An Aboriginal scholar from Australia drew on Australian Aboriginal communities’ experiences to provide the symposium’s concluding statement. Click here for a full schedule of events.

Indigeneity, Environmentalism and the Disciplines - the View from Anthropology.

From gardens to hunting, sports, street yourh and more.  This interview covers the gist of what makes a field school go.

Why Worry About Artisanal Fishers in the Era of Neo-Liberal Globalization?

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