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Pelagic Imperialism in the 21st Century? A Geopolitical Economy of China's Distant Water Fishing Industry

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China is the home of the world's largest distant water fishing (DWF) fleet. Narratives of its expansion portray China as a voracious consumer of ocean resources, as a serial abuser of labour and as aggressively expanding into developing country waters in an ‘extractivist’ drive that destroys small scale fishers' livelihoods.
Liam Campling
wiley   +1 more source

Tastes for Luxury: How Dietary Aspirations Underpin Food Regimes

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The human penchant for luxury foods has spurred mass migration, dietary overhaul and environmental change in many places around the world. Desires for foods like sugar, bread, beef and packaged foods were also central to the success of the British Empire and were a key part of American hegemony in the 20th century, and prestigious foods ...
Marylynn Steckley
wiley   +1 more source

Marine Degradation and Market Dependency in Ghana: Food Sovereignty as a Critique of Capital in Aquatic Food Systems

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small‐scale fisheries constitute a vital source of food for millions of people, despite facing increasing marginalisation. Food sovereignty is a global social movement that calls attention to the marginalisation of small‐scale food producers in capitalist, corporate‐controlled food systems.
Sophie Standen
wiley   +1 more source

Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People: A Call for Decolonial Praxis Against Complicity

open access: yes
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
Hala Shoman   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blue Economy Struggles—Capital and Power in the Global Ocean: Introduction

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If we heed the calls of fisher movements, coastal communities and environmentalists worldwide a striking picture emerges: the ocean is being claimed, carved up and commodified at an unprecedented scale. This symposium, comprising four contributions and an introductory essay, debates this ongoing capitalist capture of the oceans in the Blue ...
Felix Mallin
wiley   +1 more source

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