Nightingale, Andrea
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Gothenburg
Abstract
This paper explores the relational emergence of subjects, emotions, and socionatures and their consequences for Scottish inshore fishery management. Using a conception of the embodied spatial production of individual and collective subjectivities, and the 'ambivalence' of the subject, I explore why some fishers are committed to sustaining the fishing ground and others are not. Many people who work the land or the sea have a deep respect for and attachment to those environments, but overexploit them to make a living. How is it that people whose livelihoods depend on 'natural' environments embody apparently contradictory relationships with those environments? I probe such contradictions by exploring how the boundaries between subjects and environments are formed, and the consequences for Scottish inshore fisheries management of such boundary un/making. Using work from socionature, subjectivity, and emotional geographies, I show how fishing subjectivities are highly political and produce emotional and practical responses that have real consequences for how fisheries management plays out. Attending to the way in which subjectivities position fishers differently in relation to their resources and fisheries policies is therefore vital for successful management.
Keywords
nature-society; feminist political ecology; inshore fisheries; subjectivity; emotional geographies; Scotland
Published in
Environment and Planning A
2013, volume: 45, number: 10, pages: 2362-2378
Publisher: PION LTD
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Human Geography
Other Earth Sciences
Fish and Aquacultural Science
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1068/a45340
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/73044