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A Japanese joint venture in the Pacific: foreign bodies in tinned tuna
In: Routledge contemporary Japan series 18
Japan's International Fisheries Policy: Law, Diplomacy and Politics Governing Resource Security
In: Pacific affairs, Band 89, Heft 3, S. 656
ISSN: 0030-851X
MANAGING MODERNITY IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC
In: Pacific affairs, Band 86, Heft 1, S. 202-204
ISSN: 0030-851X
The Social in Assessing for Sustainability. Fisheries in Australia
In: Cosmopolitan civil societies: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 38-53
ISSN: 1837-5391
The notion that sustainability rests on three pillars – economic, environmental and social – has been widely accepted since the 1990s. In practice, however, the economic and environmental aspects have tended to dominate the sustainability agenda, and social aspects have been sidelined. Two reasons for this are: 1) there is a lack of data collected about which to build meaningful pictures of social aspects of sustainability for populations over time, and 2) there is a lack of recognition of the role of social factors in sustainability, and a related lack of understanding of how to analyse them in conjunction with economic and environmental factors. This paper surveys the literature about sustainability in fisheries, focussing on Australia, and focussing on the way social aspects have been treated. The paper finds that the problems that have been identified for assessing the social in sustainability in general are certainly manifest in fisheries. Management of Australian fisheries has arguably made great improvements to biological sustainability over the last decade, but much remains to be done to generate similar improvements in social sustainability for fishing communities. This is the case for government-run resource management as well as for initiatives from the private sector and conservation organizations as part of movements for corporate social responsibility and ethical consumerism. A significant challenge for improving sustainability in Australian fisheries, therefore, lies in improving data collection on social factors, and in bridging disciplinary divides to better integrate social with economic and biological assessments of sustainability.
Development and Negative Constructions of Ethnic Identity: Responses to Asian Fisheries Investment in the Pacific
In: The contemporary Pacific: a journal of island affairs, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 31-64
ISSN: 1527-9464
This article explores ethnic identities in representations of tuna fishing and canning companies in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. One point raised by the analysis is that while national identities in these countries are often disrupted by subnational ethnic identities, strong nationalist discourses pervade representations of these companies. The nationalism apparent in responses to these companies is negative, reacting against perceived exploitation by foreigners through narratives of corporate wrongdoing. This article investigates the significance of this style of identification and questions whether the national identities entailed in negative representations of foreign investment constitute resistance against development or a disempowering victim identification that reifies a subordinate position in the world political economy.
The Social in Assessing for Sustainability. Fisheries in Australia
The notion that sustainability rests on three pillars – economic, environmental and social – has been widely accepted since the 1990s. In practice, however, the economic and environmental aspects have tended to dominate the sustainability agenda, and social aspects have been sidelined. Two reasons for this are: 1) there is a lack of data collected about which to build meaningful pictures of social aspects of sustainability for populations over time, and 2) there is a lack of recognition of the role of social factors in sustainability, and a related lack of understanding of how to analyse them in conjunction with economic and environmental factors. This paper surveys the literature about sustainability in fisheries, focussing on Australia, and focussing on the way social aspects have been treated. The paper finds that the problems that have been identified for assessing the social in sustainability in general are certainly manifest in fisheries. Management of Australian fisheries has arguably made great improvements to biological sustainability over the last decade, but much remains to be done to generate similar improvements in social sustainability for fishing communities. This is the case for government-run resource management as well as for initiatives from the private sector and conservation organizations as part of movements for corporate social responsibility and ethical consumerism. A significant challenge for improving sustainability in Australian fisheries, therefore, lies in improving data collection on social factors, and in bridging disciplinary divides to better integrate social with economic and biological assessments of sustainability.
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Impacts of tuna industries on coastal communities in Pacific Island countries
In: Marine policy, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 406-413
ISSN: 0308-597X
The Last Whale
In: Pacific affairs, Band 82, Heft 4, S. 756-757
ISSN: 0030-851X
Asia in the Pacific Islands: Replacing the West
In: Pacific affairs, Band 81, Heft 3, S. 499-500
ISSN: 0030-851X
Between modernity and primitivity: Okinawan identity in relation to Japan and the South Pacific
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 117-137
ISSN: 1469-8129
This article proposes that contemporary ethnic subjectivities are shaped by modernist discourses. Ethnographic material about a group of Okinawan fishermen who worked with Solomon Islanders from 1971 to 2000 is used to explore the effect on national identities of being perceived as modern, or primitive. Okinawa is an island group to the south of Japan that became part of the Japanese Empire in the 1870s. Since then Okinawa has been defined as primitive against modern Japan. Modernist discourse was one of the range of influences on relations between Okinawan fishermen and Solomon Islanders. Symbolically violent identifications of Okinawans as more modern than Solomon Islanders stymied efforts at grassroots cosmopolitanism. Insofar as perceptions of relative levels of modernness of ethnic groups act to rank them, modernism is therefore one of the factors at stake in competition between nationalisms and friction between ethnic groups. Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.
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In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 117-138
ISSN: 1354-5078
Mixing Up: Social contact and modernization in a Japanese joint venture in the Solomon Islands
In: Critical Asian studies, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 507-540
ISSN: 1472-6033
Mixing up: social contact and modernization in a Japanese joint venture in the Solomon Islands
In: Critical Asian studies, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 507-540
ISSN: 1467-2715
Increased interactions between groups of people through modernization may be embraced as mutually enriching or denounced as causing "negative social impacts". This paper is predicated on the assumption that people's perceptions of modernization projects influence their outcomes, because people resist rather than commit to negatively perceived projects. The nature of social contact brought about through modernization is a key factor in perceptions of modernization projects. Three types of social contact in a fishing joint venture between the Solomon Islands government and a Japanese company are explored in this paper: contact between men and women, between ethnic groups within Solomon Islands, and between Solomon Islanders and foreigners. Some of the criteria by which interviewees judged social contact included whether it was peaceful or caused friction, whether it caused cultural change, and whether it was hierarchical. The types of contact are discussed in terms of those criteria to reveal their varied effects on perceptions of modernization. (Crit Asian Stud/DÜI)
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Political economy of identities in an instance of globalisation: history of a Solomon Islands Japanese joint venture tuna fishing corporation (1971-2000)
Solomon Taiyo Ltd (STL) is of vital importance to the Solomon Islands economy. It is the second largest employer after the government. It is the only substantial industrial enterprise. It is the only major employer in the Western part of the country. STL is interesting from a social science or humanities point of view because it embodies themes central to contemporary thinking about processes of decolonisation, modernisation, industrialisation, and globalisation. STL is about the adaptation of local practices to accommodate and/or resist new social, political and economic practices. It is an example of an attempt at development through the capital and know-how of a large multinational corporation. It demonstrates some possible consequences of interplay between different peoples and practices through capitalist economic activity. On an empirical level the project aims to provide information about the socio-economic outcomes of this venture and some of the reasons for those outcomes. This paper presents my work-in-progress to date, which includes examination of secondary sources and exploration of theoretical frameworks.
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