Title

Small-scale Fisheries in Japan

Description

This collection of essays brings together a range of various critical approaches, to provide an in-depth overview of the past and current status of small-scale fisheries in Japan. Covering different aspects of environmental, economic and cultural dimensions, the book attempts to map out some of the major themes relating to community-based fisheries-management systems, environmental sustainability, lottery systems for allocating fishing spots, fishing livelihoods, local knowledge, social vulnerability to environmental hazards, socioeconomic factors affecting small-scale fisheries development, history and nature of destructive fishing practices, women’s entrepreneurship in the seafood sector, traditional leadership systems, religious festivals, and power relationship between local communities and government agencies. The aim of this book is then to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the cultural richness of this fishing sector, which still plays a key role in the broad academic debates focused on the potential small-scale fishery trajectories within the context of global scenarios.

Subject

March 2011 | Lottery | Disaster | Ritual power | Power | Practice | Blast fishing | Fishing community | Yaeyama Archipelago | Utilising local fish | Leadership | Fisheries | Festival | Public participation | Folk religion | Satoumi | Processing and selling | Women fishery entrepreneurship group | Demography | Folk event | Sanriku | Fishing regulation | Restoration of eelgrass beds | Low value fish | Reconstruction | Anthropology of power | Sixth industry | Japan | Festival management | Oyster culture | Multilateral function | Small activity | ‘Unsellable’ fish | l fishing | Aquaculture | Tsunami | Map of fishing areas | Invisibilisation of difference | World War II

Publisher

Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari

Date

2018

Identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-226-0

Type

Text

Format

PDF

Language

en

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134496

Relation

Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies 7

Rights

CC BY 4.0

Educational Level

Higher education | research

Interactivity Type

Expositive