Managing sino-ghanaian fishery relations: A political ecology approach
dc.contributor.author | Penney, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Geoffrey | |
dc.contributor.author | Rodwell, LD | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-21T14:09:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-21T14:09:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-05 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0308-597X | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1872-9460 | |
dc.identifier.other | C | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/8663 | |
dc.description | publisher: Elsevier articletitle: Managing sino-ghanaian fishery relations: A political ecology approach journaltitle: Marine Policy articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.02.008 content_type: article copyright: © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | |
dc.description.abstract |
A global recurring challenge for marine managers and policy makers is the effective management of fisheries conflicts. This study demonstrates the usefulness of a political ecology approach in understanding the complexity of conflict in increasingly internationalized national fisheries. By doing so it aims to provide an alternative approach to the environmental security perspectives, predicated on scarcity narratives, that often underpin policy on fishery conflicts. Using a localised example of industrial Chinese and local artisanal fishermen conflict in Ghana, this paper reveals a complex account of contesting ‘access’ to resources, in material and nonmaterial terms, that moves beyond an ‘absolute scarcity’ driven narrative. The conflict is shown to be one, in part, focussed around spatially fixed areas as well as moral claims of correct ways of fishing that reflect social tensions within the local fishing community. Both aspects show long term motivations to keep resource access, rather than being concerned with in the moment struggles over scarce resources. This work also highlights the existence of cooperation between groups of artisanal fishermen involved in transhipment with Chinese fishermen, revealing the complex nexus of winners and losers produced by environmental, social and political factors. In sum, policy must acknowledge that conflict is rarely produced purely by scarcity, and that broader social and political factors often combine in a variety of forms to produce localised conflict. If these complexities are ignored, fisheries policy runs the risk of unintentionally exacerbating conflicts and disadvantaging those who it aims to help. | |
dc.format.extent | 46-53 | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV | |
dc.subject | Political ecology | |
dc.subject | Resource access | |
dc.subject | Conflict | |
dc.subject | Fisheries | |
dc.subject | Chinese DWF | |
dc.subject | Ghana | |
dc.title | Managing sino-ghanaian fishery relations: A political ecology approach | |
dc.type | journal-article | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
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plymouth.volume | 79 | |
plymouth.publication-status | Accepted | |
plymouth.journal | Marine Policy | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.marpol.2017.02.008 | |
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plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Faculty of Science and Engineering | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Faculty of Science and Engineering/School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA/UoA14 Geography and Environmental Studies | |
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plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Research Groups/Marine Institute | |
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plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Users by role/Academics | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-02-13 | |
dc.rights.embargodate | 2018-8-20 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1872-9460 | |
dc.rights.embargoperiod | 18 months | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1016/j.marpol.2017.02.008 | |
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2017-05 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review |