Fishing for Fairness: Poverty, Morality and Marine Resource Regulation in the Philippines

dc.contributor.authorFabinyi, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:15:12Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.updated2020-12-06T07:22:56Z
dc.description.abstractFishing for Fairness develops an explicitly cultural perspective on environmental politics in the Philippines by analysing the responses of fishers to marine resource regulations. In the resource frontier of the Calamianes Islands, fishing, conservation and tourism provide the context where competing visions of how to engage with marine resources are played out. The book draws on data from ethnographic fieldwork with fishers, government and NGO officials, fish traders and tourism operators to show how the strategic responses of fishers to management initiatives are couched within particular cultural idioms. Tapping into broader notions of morality in the Philippines, fishers express a discourse that emphasises their poverty and the obligations of the wealthy to treat them with fairness. By deploying this discourse, fishers are able to reframe what are—on the surface—questions of environmental management into issues about poverty within particular social relationships. By using a cultural political ecology framework to analyse fishers’ responses to regulation, the book emphasises the distinctive ways in which marginalised people in the Philippines resist and reframe resource management initiatives. Fishing for Fairness will appeal to both academics and policy makers interested in marine resource management, political ecology, anthropology and development studies particularly throughout the Asia-Pacific.
dc.format.extent227 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-921862663 (online)en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/17796
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherANU ePress
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAsia-Pacific Environment Monograph (APEM): No. 7en_AU
dc.relation.isversionof1st Edition
dc.rightsAuthor/s retain copyright
dc.titleFishing for Fairness: Poverty, Morality and Marine Resource Regulation in the Philippines
dc.typeBook
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access via publisher websiteen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationCanberra, ACT, Australiaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationFabinyi, Michael, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidFabinyi, Michael, u4174722
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor050202 - Conservation and Biodiversity
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5041278xPUB2
local.identifier.doi10.22459/FF.01.2012en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu5041278
local.publisher.urlhttp://press.anu.edu.au/en_AU
local.type.statusMetadata onlyen_AU

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