Blue Economy Struggles—Capital and Power in the Global Ocean: Introduction DOI Creative Commons
Felix Mallin

Journal of Agrarian Change, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 26, 2025

ABSTRACT If we heed the calls of fisher movements, coastal communities and environmentalists worldwide a striking picture emerges: ocean is being claimed, carved up commodified at an unprecedented scale. This symposium, comprising four contributions introductory essay, debates this ongoing capitalist capture oceans in Blue Economy era, tracing historical legacies, legal architectures, geopolitical motives underlying class dynamics that animate broader phenomenon grabbing. While ‘blue hype’ past decade has framed grabbing as novel phenomenon, introduction sets stage by challenging such anachronisms, situating contemporary enclosures within long history maritime territorialisation resource appropriation. Drawing on agrarian political economy, it foregrounds how United Nations Convention Law Sea (UNCLOS) not only enabled but institutionalised grabs, folding vast marine spaces into global circuits capital accumulation. The follow unpack these related across different geographies themes, including distant‐water fishing, militarised law enforcement entwinement conservation extraction. They reveal expansion sea advances through brute dispossession. More often occurs via subtle innovation, ecological narratives, piecemeal technocratic reconfigurations territorial control differentiation geographical scales. By re‐examining evolution distinctiveness oceanic relations property production, symposium offers fresh insight shifting balances power governance arising opportunities for resistance.

Язык: Английский

Marine Degradation and Market Dependency in Ghana: Food Sovereignty as a Critique of Capital in Aquatic Food Systems DOI Creative Commons
Sophie Standen

Journal of Agrarian Change, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 17, 2025

ABSTRACT Small‐scale fisheries constitute a vital source of food for millions people, despite facing increasing marginalisation. Food sovereignty is global social movement that calls attention to the marginalisation small‐scale producers in capitalist, corporate‐controlled systems. This paper develops sovereign approach understanding issues affecting fisheries' aquatic Using qualitative empirical data, it focuses on women post‐harvest workers and industrial trawling sector Ghana. Industrial has engendered marine degradation through overfishing, causing reliance buying imported trawler‐caught fish, due lack accessible affordable fish from sector. The adverse ecological consequences capitalist overexploitation are key driver creating cyclical conditions market dependency Ghanaian fisheries. Examining how propels can help illuminate complexities moving towards contemporary world.

Язык: Английский

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Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks DOI
Liam Campling, Hyun‐Jung Kim

Journal of Economic Geography, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 3, 2025

Abstract Labour exploitation in marine fishing industries has received considerable negative publicity. Yet, is there something specific about that makes it highly exploitative? We compare work on purse-seiners catching tuna for canning with longliners sashimi. explain difference through a comparative analysis along three axes: (1) population dynamics, technologies and resource access; (2) industrial organization governance of global production networks; their relationships (3) workplace labour regimes vessels. The article contributes to regime by demonstrating the relative material significance ecology shaping regimes.

Язык: Английский

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Blue Economy Struggles—Capital and Power in the Global Ocean: Introduction DOI Creative Commons
Felix Mallin

Journal of Agrarian Change, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 26, 2025

ABSTRACT If we heed the calls of fisher movements, coastal communities and environmentalists worldwide a striking picture emerges: ocean is being claimed, carved up commodified at an unprecedented scale. This symposium, comprising four contributions introductory essay, debates this ongoing capitalist capture oceans in Blue Economy era, tracing historical legacies, legal architectures, geopolitical motives underlying class dynamics that animate broader phenomenon grabbing. While ‘blue hype’ past decade has framed grabbing as novel phenomenon, introduction sets stage by challenging such anachronisms, situating contemporary enclosures within long history maritime territorialisation resource appropriation. Drawing on agrarian political economy, it foregrounds how United Nations Convention Law Sea (UNCLOS) not only enabled but institutionalised grabs, folding vast marine spaces into global circuits capital accumulation. The follow unpack these related across different geographies themes, including distant‐water fishing, militarised law enforcement entwinement conservation extraction. They reveal expansion sea advances through brute dispossession. More often occurs via subtle innovation, ecological narratives, piecemeal technocratic reconfigurations territorial control differentiation geographical scales. By re‐examining evolution distinctiveness oceanic relations property production, symposium offers fresh insight shifting balances power governance arising opportunities for resistance.

Язык: Английский

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