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SUMMARY:Fishing rights and financial capitalism in the Arctic: From common
   property to private ownership assets - Niels Einarsson (Stefansson Insti
 tute\, Iceland)
DTSTART:20141013T113000Z
DTEND:20141013T123000Z
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CONTACT:Professor Michael Bravo
DESCRIPTION:The topic of fishing and access rights to marine resources is 
 extremely important  to coastal communities in the Arctic\, as they are in
  the rest of the world for fishing societies from Ghana to Galicia. One of
  the major changes taking place\, one could call it a social and historica
 l transformation\, is the privatisation of formerly common property resour
 ces\, linking local livelihoods and community vibility to economic and fin
 ancial processes of national and  global markets and financial capitalism.
  Very little has been written about the social\, indigenous and other Arct
 ic residents‘ human rights\,  and economic and political implications of
  this recent shift in governance paradigm. This talk reports on ongoing an
 thropological and interdisciplinary research and deals with some of the as
 pects of this very rapid social change which is also coupled to processes 
 of climate change and prospects of transarctic  shipping and development o
 f industrial megaprojects. The focus is  on Iceland\, Greenland and Norway
  but with data from other Arctic societies and fisheries.
LOCATION:Scott Polar Research Institute\, Seminar Room
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