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Private Oceans

Fiona McCormack

2017208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2017
first published
  • 2017Pluto Press · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780745399102
  • 2017Pluto Press · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780745399157

"As the era of thriving small-scale fishing communities continues to wane, Fiona McCormack opens a window into contemporary fisheries quota systems and explores how neoliberalism has become entangled with our approach to environmental management. Grounded in fieldwork and participant observation in New Zealand, Iceland, Ireland, and Hawaii, Private Oceans offers a comparative analysis of the processes of privatization in ecosystem services and traces how value has been repositioned in the market away from productive activities, ultimately causing broad collapse of fishing communities worldwide"-- Publisher description.

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