Descripción del proyecto
Un estudio geopolítico sobre los pescadores chinos y vietnamitas
China y Vietnam han desplazado sus flotas pesqueras (captura y comercio de recursos marinos) del mar del Sur de China hacia África y Oceanía. Los estudios indican que estas flotas subvencionadas y militarizadas se han convertido en un instrumento en las agendas geopolíticas de sus Estados respectivos. El proyecto TransOcean, financiado con fondos europeos, estudiará cómo los individuos y los grupos de pescadores modifican sus actividades, pasando de la legalidad a la ilegalidad, como agentes estatales y no estatales, y como cazadores furtivos, comerciantes y traficantes. El proyecto también estudiará cómo este aumento de la movilidad asiática interactúa y choca con los desplazamientos en África y Oceanía. Desarrollará un nuevo modelo metodológico y teórico en el que los pescadores son representados como actores marítimos móviles que, al explotar sus redes, continúan la expansión transoceánica.
Objetivo
In recent years, China’s and Vietnam’s militarized and subsidized fishing fleets have begun to shift their radical marine harvesting techniques, and accompanying trade, from the South China Sea to Africa and Oceania. Scholarly analysis has largely assumed that fishers are instruments of their states’ geopolitical agendas, responding to regulations and incentives. This both obscures the actual motivations and modalities of fishers’ expansion of their fishing grounds and downplays the transoceanic networks connecting different fishers beyond state territories and localized fishing grounds in past and present. Charting this spike in maritime trespass, TransOcean will analyze and theorize how individuals and groups of fishers move in and out of legal and illegal, state and non-state categories of fisher, poacher, trader and smuggler, and how the emergent mobilities of Asian fishers interact and collide with those of Pacific and African fishers.
Deploying the innovative concept of relational and shifting multiple mobilities and employing thalassographic analysis, TransOcean develops a novel theoretical and methodological framework of fishers as mobile maritime actors who exploit their multiple occupations, incomes and networks to pursue transoceanic expansion. TransOcean studies, for the first time, diverse groups of interconnected fishers outside of territorially bounded fisheries and area studies, by analyzing mobilities beyond sea-borne migration or diasporic settlement. Though multi-scalar and globally oriented TransOcean remains firmly rooted in fine-grained ethnography, with a focus on Vietnamese and Chinese and African and Pacific fishers in specific on-shore nodal points, connected by the growing Sino-Vietnamese demand for illicit seafood. Thus, TransOcean breaks new methodological and theoretical ground for tackling intractable marine problems of significant scientific and policy value.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
5006 Bergen
Noruega