Description
Transforming the Fisheries examines how scientific, economic, and regulatory responses to the problem of overfishing have changed over the past twenty years. Based on fieldwork in a commercial fishing port in Ireland, Bresnihan weaves together ethnography, science, history, and social theory to explore the changing relationships between knowledge, nature, and the market. For Bresnihan, many of the key concepts that govern contemporary environmental thinking-such as scarcity, sustainability, the commons, and enclosure-should be reconsidered in light of the collapse of global fish stocks and the different ways this problem is being addressed. Only by considering these concepts anew can we begin to reinvent the ecological commons we need for the future.
About the Author
Patrick Bresnihan is an assistant professor in environmental geography at Trinity College, Dublin.
Reviews
"A must read."-Antipode
"Eloquently written, deeply researched, deftly argued. This is a brilliant, critical reappraisal of capitalism's relationship with the sea and should be read by anyone concerned with environmental crisis more generally."-Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
"A gracefully written and analytically powerful account of the crisis of European fisheries. Bresnihan's Transforming the Fisheries ranks among the most insightful of a new wave of political ecology, ably weaving together work, power, and capital. It is must reading for anyone concerned about ecological crisis and global capitalism."-Jason W. Moore, associate professor at Binghamton University and author of Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
"Transforming the Fisheries is a milestone in current debates on the commons. It not only offers an insightful discussion of the many radically divergent approaches to the commons and their complex relations to politics, but also provides a framework for rethinking and expanding the commons beyond its intense liberal and humanist entanglements. It introduces an understanding of the commons as a shared practice of socio-material experimentation."-Dimitris Papadopoulos, associate professor at Leicester University and coauthor of Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century
Book Information
ISBN 9780803254251
Author Patrick Bresnihan
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press