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Revisiting Maine's Lobster Commons: Rescaling Political Subjects

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dc.contributor.author Brewer, Jennifer F.
dc.date.accessioned 2012-09-10T15:51:46Z
dc.date.available 2012-09-10T15:51:46Z
dc.date.issued 2012 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8355
dc.description.abstract "Calls for cross-scalar theoretical and methodological approaches are not new to commons scholarship. Such efforts might be hastened by channelling poststructuralist and critical theory perspectives through the geographic subfield of political ecology, including attention to political scales and subjects. Toward this end, this paper reconsiders Maine’s lobster fishery. This case has provided rich material for watershed commons scholarship, demonstrating the ability of social groups to conserve resources independent of government or markets, and it continues to offer new findings. Recent fieldwork shows that as lobster boat captains advance collective interests through state-supported co-management governance arrangements, concerns of crew and non-fishing community members may be marginalized. Regulatory exclusion prevents broader distribution of resource benefits at a time when employment alternatives are scarce. More pluralistic approaches to commons theory and its policy application have utility well beyond the lobster case." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject co-management en_US
dc.subject fisheries en_US
dc.subject lobster en_US
dc.subject privatization en_US
dc.title Revisiting Maine's Lobster Commons: Rescaling Political Subjects en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region North America en_US
dc.coverage.country United States en_US
dc.subject.sector Water Resource & Irrigation en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal International Journal of the Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 6 en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages 319-343 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 2 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth August en_US


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