Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea

'Working the Ground' in Scotland

Penny McCall Howard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2019
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4369-3 (ISBN)

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This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. -- .

This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to, forces that shape even the relations between fishers on the same boat. Fishers frequently have to make impossible choices between safe seamanship and staying afloat economically, and the book describes the human impact of the high rate of deaths in the fishing industry.

The book makes a unique contribution to understanding human-environment relations, examining the places fishers create and name at sea, as well as technologies and navigation practices. It combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life below water -- .

Penny McCall Howard is National Research Officer for the Maritime Union of Australia and is an Honorary Associate in the Anthropology Department of the University of Sydney -- .

Introduction
Part I: A metabolism of labour and environment
1 'Working the ground'
2 From Wullie's Peak to the Burma: naming places at sea
Part II: Techniques and technologies
3 Techniques to extend the body and its senses
4 From 'where am I?' to 'where is that?' Rethinking navigation
Part III: Capitalism and class
5 'You just can't get a price': the difference political economy makes
6 Structural violence in ecological systems
Conclusion: labour, class, environments and anthropology
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	New Ethnographies
Zusatzinfo	44 black & white illustrations, 5 graphs
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-5261-4369-0 / 1526143690
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-4369-3 / 9781526143693
Zustand	Neuware