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Fisheries development: effects

Ecological Socio-economic Institutional

Fisheries development effects: Scale and complexity?

Fisheries development: effects

Scale: local-global connections now major economic driver

Fisheries development: effects

Fisheries development: effects

Complexity
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Complexity
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Scale and density of connections

Absence of precautionary planning Path dependency

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Dynamics: Why the institutional failure?

State side The 1950s and 1960s context The legacy of top-down approaches to development Vegetarianism and the marginal fishery Fisher side Fishery grew too fast and rewards were too great Dominant players in fishery did not identify with fishing Indigenous institutions had strong legal systems, but not for resource conservation

Conclusion on HE concepts and Gujarat fishery

Concepts provide structure for analysis Starting points for policy The case is also useful illustration of anthropological insights:

Your task

Where are society and culture in this story?

Socio-cultural anthropology

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Specific argument delivery: Part 1, Human Ecology

Divisions material vs. symbolic focuses: Anthropology Ecology Engineering Ecological economics

What is anthropology?

Anthropos ology Specifically:

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humankind study of

Thus, culture is central concern

Human distinctiveness: culture HE terms: how has one species adapted to so many environments with so little biological change?
Biological unity; cultural diversity

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Anthropologys system

Anthropologys division of labour

Coverage ambitiously broad:

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Biological and social-cultural aspects of humanity (and ancestors and relatives) Present, historic, and pre-historic times, including study of human origins All societies and cultures (diversity) Cross-cultural comparison

Physical anthropology (or biological anthropology) Archaeology Linguistic anthropology Socio-cultural anthropology (also social or cultural anthropology) Applied anthropology

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Anthropologys system

Anthropologys system

Research interests, U of M Anthropology:

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Holism and relationality:

the assumption that any given aspect of human life is to be studied with an eye to its relation to other aspects of human life. (Bates 4)

Women and theatre in China Social dimensions of HIV/AIDS in China and India Conflict over mining in Latin America Fisheries development and governance in India First Nations and visual media in Winnipeg Political consciousness of youth in the Ukraine Sex tourism in the Caribbean The history of tuberculosis in Canada Apprenticeship in African pottery manufacture Skeletal analysis Archaeology of past resource use in coastal BC Domestication and origins of food production in Europe

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Bates, Daniel. (2005). Human Adaptive Strategies: Ecology, Culture, and Politics. Boston: Pearson.

Socio-cultural Anthropology

The socio-cultural field of interest

Human culture and society everywhere

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Until 1980s focus on bounded small-scale human groups Since 1980s increase in scale of interest

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