Marine protected areas and spatial fetishism: A viewpoint on destructive fishing in coastal Tanzania

Raycraft, Justin

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.06.008

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“…But the roots of our global ecological crisis run deep, and the outcomes are manifest across many environmental domains including, but not limited to, the ocean. I see MPAs as “bandage” solutions to an underlying problem with the human condition (see Raycraft 2018a:478).…”

Section: The Ocean From Above and The Ocean From Belowmentioning

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Seeing from Below: Scuba Diving and the Regressive Cyborg

Raycraft

2020

Anthropology and Humanism

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Summary This article reimagines scuba diving as a form of ethnographic immersion that allows humans to experience life on earth from an underwater perspective. I argue that scuba divers are both posthuman in their cyborgian transcendence of the basic limitations of our species and prehuman in their metaphorical regression into womb‐like oceans, from which all life on earth evolved. I conceptualize divers as (p)reborn humans. Underwater, symbolic modes of human communication devolve to iconic and indexical forms of gesturing that are more in tune with surrounding ecosystems. Scuba diving involves shamanic navigation between lifeworlds, processes that are deeply ritualistic and psychoanalytically significant. Through first‐hand narrative accounts, divers bring new forms of relational knowledge into the public sphere. Bearing in mind the politics of being underwater, I contend that scuba diving can foster a change in how humans apprehend the ocean, from top‐down representation to bottom‐up lived experience. Scuba diving reshapes attention in ways that could inspire collective appreciation for the blue planet that sustains us. Against the backdrop of global environmental change, I call for a shift in the way that humans see and think about the ocean, from above water to below.

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Seeing from Below: Scuba Diving and the Regressive Cyborg

Raycraft

2020

Anthropology and Humanism

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“…More specifically, papers associated with large-scale, coastal fisheries management and included in the green module connected to papers associated with socio-ecological issues that were included in the red and bright-red modules ( [29], paper #214; [30] [35], p. 13). In turn, a single connection between red and bright-red modules emerged, between papers discussing marine conservation issues ( [36], p. 158; [37], p. 297).…”

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Combining Marine Ecology and Economy to Roadmap the Integrated Coastal Management: A Systematic Literature Review

2019

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Integrated coastal management (ICM) relies on the inclusion of economic issues within marine ecology. To assess the progress of this integration, we applied topic modelling and network analysis to explore the pertinent literature (583 Isi-WoS, and 5459 Scopus papers). We classified the topics of interest (i.e., concepts, approaches, and sectors) that combined ecological and economic issues within marine science, we aggregated these topics in fields pertinent to ICM, and tracked the knowledge-exchange between these fields by using an information-flow network. Main findings were: (i) the high trans-disciplinary fashion of studies about marine protection and of those about commercial fisheries, (ii) the weak interaction between studies focusing on potential biohazards and those about environmental management, (iii) the isolation, in the overall information-flow, of studies about ecotourism and aquaculture. We included in a roadmap all the integration routes we detected within ICM, based on the combination of ecological and economic issues. We conclude that, to improve integration, ICM should: (i) Exploit marine protection as a bridge between ecological and economic concepts and approaches, and between maritime economy sectors, (ii) employ systems ecology to pursue trans-disciplinary investigations, (iii) complement systems ecology with citizen science by means of inclusive economic initiatives, such as ecotourism.

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“…The involvement of many stakeholders (i.e. multi-actor governance) is needed for effective resource governance (Raycraft, 2018;Williams et al, 2019). Coordination and collaboration between the government, private sector, and resource users in resource governance are required in governing the natural resources effectively (York & Schoon 2011).…”

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“…In global, blast fishing is a challenge for many researchers and government to stop it out. Combatting these destructive activities are crucial for sustainable marine services (Raycraft, 2018). Understanding what factors are hampering coping measures for blast fishing is critical for policymaking in governing the natural resources and preventing the continuing blast fishing activity.…”

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“…For example, in social-economic aspects some literature study the importance of determining the causes and effects (Munyi, 2009), costs and benefits (Pet-Soede et al, 1999) of these illegal activities to the society. Further, other literatures focus on in environmental damaged that affects the social system (Briggs, 2006;England, 2014;Fox & Caldwell, 2006;Russell & Fabinyi, 2012;Sawall et al, 2013;Williams et al, 2019) and the idea of providing the alternative governance strategies (Chan & Hodgson, 2017;Raycraft, 2018). However, little is known about what factors are causing the ineffectiveness of existing governance strategies to form an effective solution against blast fishing problems.…”

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Blast Fishing Activity and Coping Strategies in Indonesia (South Nias and Pohuwato Regency)

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2020

JIAP

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Indonesia is one such country that has not yet been successful with strategies of the government to cope with the blast fishing problem. In the existing literature, many scholars tend to study the impact of blast fishing activity from a social and ecological perspective, and few works focus on examining the governance arrangements in place to tackle blast fishing, the effectiveness of these, and how they might be improved. This research uses the case of South Nias and Pohuwato Regency in Indonesia to understand and analyses the factors affecting the outcomes of governance measures to cope with blast fishing. Findings revealed that the blast fishing situation is less improved in South Nias but significantly reduced in Pohuwato. The existing strategies in South Nias have not succeeded in eradicating the blast fishing activity of because of the lack budget and resources for implementing preventative actions. In contrast, in Pohuwato, the involvement of resource users, the co-ordination of government institutions, sharing of resources between the authorities and the community appear to be the main factors that have contributed to more effective governance measures and a decline in blast fishing activity.

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Marine protected areas and spatial fetishism: A viewpoint on destructive fishing in coastal Tanzania

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

Seeing from Below: Scuba Diving and the Regressive Cyborg

Seeing from Below: Scuba Diving and the Regressive Cyborg

Combining Marine Ecology and Economy to Roadmap the Integrated Coastal Management: A Systematic Literature Review

Blast Fishing Activity and Coping Strategies in Indonesia (South Nias and Pohuwato Regency)

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