Assembling Enclosure: Reading Marine Spatial Planning for Alternatives

Conservation, development and the blue frontier: the Republic of Seychelles’ Debt Restructuring for Marine Conservation and Climate Adaptation Program

“…First, as other marine social science research has found (Fairbanks et al . ; Gruby et al . ; Steinberg ), oceans are frequently understood as easy or cheap conservation “wins” relative to terrestrial spaces that are permanently inhabited by people and/or widely understood as extractive spaces integral to a nation's economy.…”

“…Marine Spatial Planning and Large Marine Protected Areas are regularly made central to large‐scale ocean governance initiatives (Fairbanks et al . ; Gruby et al . ).…”

“…Governments may also see planning and boundary designation processes as useful ways to reinforce their resource claims and governance authority within sovereign EEZs (Fairbanks et al . ; Gray et al . ; Gruby et al .…”

Charted waters? Tracking the production of conservation territories on the high seas

“…However, in recent decades there has been a shift toward enclosure of the oceans by states, along with a rising interest in environmental protection and “rational” management of marine resources (Fairbanks et al . ; Mansfield ; Scott ; Steinberg ). Ocean enclosures include a variety of spatial practices, such as the establishment of 200 nm exclusive economic zones (EEZs), state claims to outer continental shelves, the rapid increase in marine protected areas, and the development of marine spatial planning, as well as aspatial forms of enclosure such as individual transferable quotas for fisheries, a kind of private property in the sea (Mansfield ).…”

Introduction to the themed issue - Poststructural approaches to fisheries

“…Although MSP can frame and enact spaces and communities in ways that are far removed from the lived experience of people living on the coast, this is not an inevitable outcome of MSP. Planning tools like MSP, Boucquey et al.. argue, can be 'assembled' differently in ways that destabilize the relationship between planners and coastal communities, while at the same time providing the foundation for a more progressive and hopeful way of living in ocean spaces (also see Fairbanks et al 2017). Bouquey et al's (2015) research is an excellent example of ontological politics and it confirms a point that John Law (2009, 155) has long stressed: he has argued that "reality is not destiny" and that with "great difficulty and effort, what is real can be remade".…”