Neoliberalism and the politics of enclosure in North American small-scale fisheries

By Evelyn Pinkerton, R. Davis. 2015

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This paper reviews the ways in which policies of enclosure, privatization, and deregulation have unfolded in several regions of North America and examines the consequences they have had for small-scale fisheries in practice. This introductory essay provides a brief overview of the history of neoliberal thought, discusses some of the key ways it has influenced fisheries policies in North America and around the world, and presents a thematic overview of the papers included in this special issue.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In Global and Planetary Change

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2. R. Stephenson

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• Practical steps toward integrating economic, social and institutional elements in fisheries policy and management (2017, background): “Many of these have been unintended, or at least untracked, such as the direct social and economic costs of lost or foregone community benefits resulting from changes in the distribution of benefits from fisheries (Wiber, 2000; Pinkerton, 2013; Pinkerton and Davis, 2015).”