Brief description
This thesis addresses questions of identity and ontological legitimacy within the commercial shark fishing community of Bass Strait, Australia. The implications of competing discourses for the integrity of fisher identity, environmental conservation and public narratives on environmental 'crises' are considered. Ethnographic material is drawn on and developed with commercial fishers and, to a lesser extent, fisheries 'experts', to explore ambiguities in understandings of individuality and perceptions of the marine environment. Informing this analysis are theories of practice, particularly notions of embodied relationships and knowledge, the role of 'luck' in enabling a particular expression of 'individuality', the 'skipper effect', a consideration of nation-state sanctioned and popular media representations of the environment, and the peculiarly Australian experience and representation of individuality, both as performance and as trope. These themes are considered against a backdrop of the physical and social activities involved in commercial fishing, and the 2001 nation-state-initiated introduction of an Individual Transferable Quota management system.Lineage
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CreditMonica Minnegal, Peter Dwyer, Roger Just and Simone Blair as well as the owners, skippers, crew and families of the vessels: the Daryl R, Margaret Goulden and Maasbanker.
Issued: 19 07 2006
Data time period: 2001-01 to 2003-01
text: westlimit=144; southlimit=-41; eastlimit=150; northlimit=-37
Subjects
37 017008 |
37 017901 |
Administrative Divisions |
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS |
Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Fisheries | shark fishing industry |
BIOSPHERE |
BOUNDARIES |
Bass Strait |
Biosphere | Zoology | Fish | sharks |
EARTH SCIENCE |
Galeorhinus galeus |
HUMAN DIMENSIONS |
Mustelus spp. |
Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish | Chondrichthyes |
Pelagic Habitat |
Political Divisions |
Social Behavior |
biota |
gummy sharks |
school shark |
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(Link to PhD thesis)
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http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00003695/
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