Manifesto for the marine social sciences

Bavinck, Maarten; Verrips, Jojada

doi:10.1007/s40152-020-00179-x

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“…Second, we suggest that contemporary science and policy narratives around marine aquaculture, and the alliances of actors that propagate them, contribute—through their alignment with the blue growth policy agenda—to a global drive to create and enclose maritime territory through the extension of private property rights that would accelerate allocation of the oceans to extractive industries and conservation interests. Marine enclosures facilitated by ‘blue growth’ could exclude and displace coastal fishers, who presently account for the vast majority of ocean users 13 , 14 , potentially eroding the significant contributions that small-scale fisheries make to human nutrition 14 , 15 .…”

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“…through the extension of private property rights that would accelerate allocation of the oceans to extractive industries and conservation interests. Marine enclosures facilitated by 'blue growth' could exclude and displace coastal fishers, who presently account for the vast majority of ocean users 13,14 , potentially eroding the significant contributions that small-scale fisheries make to human nutrition 14,15 .…”

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Farming fish in the sea will not nourish the world

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Recent literature on marine fish farming brands it as potentially compatible with sustainable resource use, conservation, and human nutrition goals, and aligns with the emerging policy discourse of ‘blue growth’. We advance a two-pronged critique. First, contemporary narratives tend to overstate marine finfish aquaculture’s potential to deliver food security and environmental sustainability. Second, they often align with efforts to enclose maritime space that could facilitate its allocation to extractive industries and conservation interests and exclude fishers. Policies and investments that seek to increase the availability and accessibility of affordable and sustainable farmed aquatic foods should focus on freshwater aquaculture.

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“…OL research with focus on the blue economy seems to be scarce and sector-specific, and will increasingly need to follow an interdisciplinary approach across the marine, maritime, education, social and economic sciences (Bavinck and Verrips, 2020;ten Brink et al, 2020). Managing the blue economy requires managing people, which calls for efforts to better understand their knowledge, attitudes, behavior and needs (Ashley et al, 2019;Cavallo et al, 2020).…”

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Mapping Global Research on Ocean Literacy: Implications for Science, Policy, and the Blue Economy

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In recent years, ocean literacy has become a global movement that connects the human dimension to the ocean and intends to be an incentive for positive change in people’s behavior. As multiple initiatives on ocean literacy have arisen, a comprehensive understanding of this topic is required to better engage the broader society. In the present study, we applied a combination of bibliometric analysis and science mapping to a dataset of scientific publications on ocean literacy between 2005 and 2019, obtained from Web of Science and Scopus databases. In order to represent the development of the field, analyze the level of collaborations and uncover its thematic areas, we first used bibliometric analyses to describe the field’s main features, including indicators of growth and research collaboration. We then used science mapping techniques to build collaboration networks among countries and institutions, and to identify research communities. Lastly, we performed co-word analysis to reveal the underlying thematic areas and their evolution. Our results reveal a slow-growing number of publications and a promising trend for collaboration among authors, countries and institutions. Education and science were identified as the two major thematic areas on ocean literacy showing that, over time, issues related to these themes have gained more attention among researchers. These findings confirm that ocean literacy is gaining more acknowledgment within the scientific community but still faces considerable limitations to its dissemination in sectors like the blue economy and in regions such as Latin America and Africa. Promoting cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary cooperation among research institutions, marine education networks and the industry is critical to support this purposeful movement and represents an urgent challenge.

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“…In this perspective, the peoples of Latin American territories live, name, and represent worlds (or parts of worlds) in an ontologically different manner than is done through Eurocentric and technocratic rationality (De la Cadena 2015 ; De la Cadena and Blaser 2018 ); so, most of the conflicts—environmental or otherwise—arise from the inability of modern rational epistemologies to understand certain relationships between humans and other natures (Blaser 2013 ; Escobar 2015 ). Pauwelussen ( 2020 ), in her comment on the Manifesto for the marine social sciences (Bavinck and Verrip 2020 ), identifies the existence of epistemological and ontological diversity as part of an invitation to decolonize marine sciences. Mather et al ( 2017 ) have also noted the shift from exclusively epistemological questions raised by maritime scholarship towards an engagement with ontological ones, from a concern about how our theories and methods are not mere representations but are “world making.”…”

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Plagues, past, and futures for the Yagan canoe people of Cape Horn, southern Chile

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The manner in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the indigenous Yagan people of Navarino Island in southern Chile is the topic of this paper. Like other First Nation communities, these nomadic people suffered decimation and disease in successive encounters with Europeans, and then, in the mid-twentieth century, forced sedentarization by the Chilean State. More recently, the Yagan have fought the expansion of salmon aquaculture to the Island. Making use of a sociomaterial approach, we examine how the threat of past and present viruses and diseases, added to the tragic effects of colonization, become part of a broader sociohistorical debate on the right of coastal peoples to their maritories. Paradoxically, our results suggest that COVID-19 has become part of an assemblage of ethnic revitalization, opening possibilities for the Yagan clans to make some of their envisioned futures possible.

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Manifesto for the marine social sciences

Cited by 45 publications

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Farming fish in the sea will not nourish the world

Farming fish in the sea will not nourish the world

Mapping Global Research on Ocean Literacy: Implications for Science, Policy, and the Blue Economy

Plagues, past, and futures for the Yagan canoe people of Cape Horn, southern Chile

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