‘We are the oceans, we are the people!’: fisher people’s struggles for blue justice
Journal of Peasant Studies, cilt.50, sa.3, ss.1157-1186, 2023 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 50 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2023
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1999932
- Dergi Adı: Journal of Peasant Studies
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, American History and Life, Anthropological Literature, CAB Abstracts, Geobase, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, PAIS International, Political Science Complete, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, Veterinary Science Database, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1157-1186
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Environmental justice, blue justice, marine social metabolism, ocean grabbing, fisher conflicts, fisher struggles
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Fisher people and their communities around the world have been key social actors in seafood production and they are still feeding the world with about two-thirds of the catches destined for direct human consumption. However, they are subjected to a wide range of injustices due to coastal and offshore investment projects and the inequalities embedded in the global capitalist marine economy. These injustices are manifested through socio-environmental conflicts, which have been studied and mapped in the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas) together with other social actors’ resistances. This article examines 120 fisher folk conflicts that have been identified, documented and mapped in the EJAtlas, while proposing a Blue Justice framework to understand their underlying causes and how fisher people confront such injustices. As a grounded theoretical approach emerging from the scrutiny of fisher resistances and building on environmental justice, critical marine sociology and political economy literatures, the Blue Justice framework proposed here focuses on three dimensions: (i) material and biophysical dimension, (ii) spatial justice, and (iii) autonomy and sovereignty. In adopting this framework, this analysis reveals the blue layers of environmental justice by uncovering both the causes of conflicts faced by fisher communities and their political agency.