113 research outputs found
Critical Raw Materials Podcast Series by FRAUD
No full textA series of conversations with activists, scholars, fisherpeople and artists, hosted by FRAUD, around the politics of extraction, migration and international agreements that are affecting communities and ecologies on a global scale and that perpetuate European colonial legacies.
Including:
Prof. Adekeye Adebajo, Director of the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dr Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare, Artist, Architect and Independent Scholar based in Accra, Ghana.
Dr Nishat Awan, Artist and Architect, Principal Investigator of Topological Atlas, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Prof. Liam Campling, International Business and Development, School of Business and Management of Queen Mary, University of London, England.
Dr Jennifer Telesca, Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute.
Prof. Peo Hansen, Political Science, Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden.
Prof. Stefan Jonsson, Ethnic Studies, Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden.
Dr Ndongo Samba Sylla, development economist at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Dakar, Sénégal
Industrial Fisheries and Ocean Accumulation
No full textThree-fourths of the world’s marine capture fisheries are at or beyond ‘full exploitation’, indicating the likelihood that many fish populations, and the ecosystem of which they are a part, will decline (if they are not already) with current and expanded levels of competitive extraction, though the geographies of fisheries decline and recovery are uneven. Fish, whether saltwater or freshwater, farmed or captured, are an important source of animal protein, micronutrients and fatty acids crucial to alleviating malnutrition, hundreds of millions of people are employed as fish workers and in fisheries-related activities, and fish exports from developing countries generate a higher export value than coffee, bananas, cocoa, tea, sugar and tobacco combined (Campling et al. 2012). State and market pressures from outside fishing industries also shape the ecological resources that fisheries depend upon. For example, the ‘deadly trio’ of oceanic warming, acidification and deoxygenation – all driven by terrestrial capitalism – threatens in particular larger-bodied animals living at the top of trophic levels in the oceans’ ecosystems (Payne et al. 2016). These changes and declines are a likely oceanic outcome of ‘business as usual’ for global capitalism.
Mainstream social science fisheries research has largely been under-attentive to fisheries systems in general and particularly in relation to questions of how they are shaped through capitalism. Historically, the prevailing treatment of fisheries in the social sciences has been biologically and economically reductionist, and policy thinking is ‘subsumed under the goals of economic growth and wealth creation’ (Symes and Phillipson 2009, 1). Fisheries have been treated as ‘a technicality, an exercise of narrow, instrumental rationality ruled by universal theory’ (Jentoft 2007, 435), and ‘the individual producer [is theorized] as an autonomous isolate engaged in the technical act of catching fish’ (Pálsson 1991, 21). However, over the last ten years, this has begun to change rapidly (for a recent review, see Bavnick et al. 2018).
With Penny McCall Howard, in 2012 we edited a special double issue of Journal of Agrarian Change that sought to examine the political economy and ecology of capture fisheries, drawing explicitly from the analytical tools available to critical agrarian studies, and enriching these tools with cases from the water. In our introduction to that special issue (Campling et al. 2012), we charted three themes that we saw then as pertinent to critical agrarian studies and the political economy of capture fisheries: market dynamics and competition in fisheries production-consumption systems; labour, forms of exploitation and resistance; and resource access and the state. In the years since, there has been a flourishing of attention to fisheries specifically, and of extractive relations in aquatic spaces more broadly. Here we advance two main objectives: 1) to introduce study of industrial fisheries to a critical agrarian studies audience and indicate relevant intersections between the two, and 2) to highlight new advances, emergent research themes and exciting scholars working in the field of ‘oceanic accumulation’ (Sibilia 2019).
Given space limitations, we focus on industrial marine capture fisheries and to raise questions about ocean accumulation more generally. We recognise the profound socio-economic and ecological importance of artisanal and small-scale coastal fisheries, and inland or riverine fisheries, as well as booming aquaculture and mariculture industries. These are essential areas for critical agrarian studies and each presents important analytical similarities and differences and we encourage scholars working in the critical agrarian studies tradition to research these and their articulations; our hope is that the discussion here offers foundations for ongoing and expanding attention to critical agrarian studies beyond the terrestrial
Geography and history matter: International business and economic geography perspectives on the spatial and historical development of multinational enterprises
No full textSituated within the broader conference theme of historical change, this panel session brought together international business and economic geography perspectives on multinational enterprise (MNE) evolutionary trajectories. The panel session follows a series of past conference sessions aimed to increase dialogue and interaction between economic geographers and international business scholars. These included several sessions at the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of Geographer’s Annual Conference in 2010 and the Association of International Business in 2012. The aim for this conference panel session was for panellists to offer a range of empirical and conceptual observations to interrogate our existing understandings of the spatial and historical development of MNEs. While space and time often provide distinct lenses on the operations of MNEs, the panel discussed the ways in which the two can be combined to provide more nuanced conceptualisations and frameworks for analysis, which can powerfully complement existing conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches in international business. This chapter is a record of the panel session and, as such, offers a direct representation of the speakers’ presentations, their discussions and their question and answer session. The chapter begins with Martin Hess’ discussion of continuity and change in MNEs and global production networks, followed by Rudolf Sinkovics’ analysis of the uptake of economic geography work on global sourcing by international business. Liam Campling then introduces us to commodity chains and commodity frontiers before Peter Buckley offers a summary and discussion of the key debates and issues raised. The chapter includes the questions posed to the panel and the answers and discussion offered in response
Historicising Trade Preferences and Development: The Case of the ACP-EU Canned Tuna Preference
No full textThe Tuna ‘Commodity Frontier’: Business Strategies and Environment in the Industrial Tuna Fisheries of the Western Indian Ocean
No full textCritical cartographies of the green hydrogen rush in Namibia
No full textDr. William Monteith, Queen Mary University of LondonExplores historical and contemporary (dis)connections between
the twin global crises of unemployment and ecological collapse
Critically examines recent investments in ‘green frontier’ industries and the ‘green jobs’
they are predicted to create (24 million by 2030)
Seeks to understand how the benefits of the green hydrogen economy will be
distributed along the value chain
Project team: Prof. Kavita Datta, Prof. Nicola Piper, Prof. Adrian Smith, Prof. Liam
Campling , Dr. Elena Baglioni, Dr. Carlo Inverardi Ferri , Dr. Will MonteithQueen Mary University of Londo
Roundtable of Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás, Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World, organized by Valerie Burton with a response by the authors
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