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Fishing for Nature: The Politics of Subjectivity and Emotion in Scottish Inshore Fisheries Management

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  • Andrea Nightingale

    (School of Global Studies, PO Box 700, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden; and Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment, School of Geo Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, Scotland)

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.

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  • Andrea Nightingale, 2013. "Fishing for Nature: The Politics of Subjectivity and Emotion in Scottish Inshore Fisheries Management," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 45(10), pages 2362-2378, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:45:y:2013:i:10:p:2362-2378
    DOI: 10.1068/a45340
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