TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fabinyi, Michael
AB  - Fishing for Fairness develops an explicitly cultural perspective on environmental politics in the Philippines by analysing the responses of fishers to marine resource regulations. In the resource frontier of the Calamianes Islands, fishing, conservation and tourism provide the context where competing visions of how to engage with marine resources are played out. The book draws on data from ethnographic fieldwork with fishers, government and NGO officials, fish traders and tourism operators to show how the strategic responses of fishers to management initiatives are couched within particular cultural idioms. Tapping into broader notions of morality in the Philippines, fishers express a discourse that emphasises their poverty and the obligations of the wealthy to treat them with fairness. By deploying this discourse, fishers are able to reframe what are—on the surface—questions of environmental management into issues about poverty within particular social relationships. By using a cultural political ecology framework to analyse fishers’ responses to regulation, the book emphasises the distinctive ways in which marginalised people in the Philippines resist and reframe resource management initiatives. Fishing for Fairness will appeal to both academics and policy makers interested in marine resource management, political ecology, anthropology and development studies particularly throughout the Asia-Pacific.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_459237
ID  - OAPEN ID: 459237
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 848080751
KW  - philippines
KW  - marine resources
KW  - attitudes
KW  - management
KW  - working poor
KW  - fishing
KW  - Calamian Islands
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Fishery
KW  - Grouper
KW  - Illegal
KW  - unreported and unregulated fishing
KW  - Live fish trade
KW  - Palawan
KW  - Tourism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/fdf6db89-44a7-4ed3-8faa-a5fb953f2812/459237.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33749
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2012
TI  - Fishing for Fairness : Poverty, Morality and Marine Resource Regulation in the Philippines
ER  - 
