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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it": comparing fisheries reforms in South Africa

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The paper argues that the reduction of history to "apartheid" has hamstrung efforts to reform the South African fisheries since 1994, by privileging race over class and state. The salience of the latter in the maintenance and reproduction of endemic inequality is demonstrated by a comparison of the current reform process with that in the 1940s. This reveals a series of striking similarities and shows how the initial redistribution agenda in both instances was subverted in favour of a consolidation of monopoly capital and state control over the marine commons.

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  • van Sittert, Lance, 2002. ""Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it": comparing fisheries reforms in South Africa," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 26(4), pages 295-305, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:marpol:v:26:y:2002:i:4:p:295-305
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    1. Anderson, Tarryn-Anne, 2015. "Tracking the movement of fish: Skippers׳ logbooks and contestations over ways of knowing the sea," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 318-324.
    2. Thando Vilakazi & Stefano Ponte, 2022. "Black Economic Empowerment and Quota Allocations in South Africa's Industrial Fisheries," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 53(5), pages 1059-1086, September.
    3. Mafaniso M. Hara, 2014. "Analysis of South African Commercial Traditional Linefish Snoek Value Chain," Marine Resource Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 29(3), pages 279-299.
    4. Sowman, Merle & Sunde, Jackie & Raemaekers, Serge & Schultz, Oliver, 2014. "Fishing for equality: Policy for poverty alleviation for South Africa's small-scale fisheries," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 31-42.
    5. Schultz, Oliver J., 2015. "Defiance and obedience: Regulatory compliance among artisanal fishers in St Helena Bay," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 331-337.

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