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Power and democracy: the politics of representation and participation in small-scale fisheries governance on the Cape Peninsula
Includes bibliographical references
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| author | Schultz, Oliver John |
| author2 | Sowman, Merle |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/16862 Power and democracy: the politics of representation and participation in small-scale fisheries governance on the Cape Peninsula Schultz, Oliver John Sowman, Merle Menon, Ajit Environmental and Geographical Science Includes bibliographical references The tension between power and democracy is crucial for understanding the nature and Outcomes of marine and coastal fisheries governance processes. However, this thesis Argues that prominent contemporary approaches to fisheries theory tend to promote a neoliberal vision of 'politics without politics', in which emphasis is placed on inclusive, de-centred and collaborative interaction between multiple and divergent state and non-state actors. By doing so, this perspective is likely to predispose the observer to underestimate the primacy of power as a factor determining the engagement between multiple actors in fisheries governance processes. This thesis seeks to address this apparent oversight by exploring some of the crucial power dynamics that are understated or overlooked by contemporary approaches to fisheries governance theory. It presents an ethnographic study of power and micro-politics in public participation and community based representation among small-scale fishing communities on South Africa's Cape Peninsula. The study is filtered through the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu and other critical scholars, so as to reveal the material and symbolic forms of power and strategic practices that manifested through processes of representation and participation. This thesis demonstrates that community-based representation and public participation can serve as mechanisms for dominant actors to exercise and increase their power, while undermining rather than supporting the democratic interests and efforts of small-scale fishers. Drawing on this research on the Cape Peninsula, and on the theorising of Bourdieu and other critical scholars, this thesis concludes by suggesting how power can be brought into the analysis and theorisation of fisheries governance. In particular, this thesis proposes a real politik perspective as a means to understand how structural and micro-political power dynamics constrain the possibilities for democratic small-scale fisher representation and participation in fisheries governance processes. 2016-02-08T07:19:22Z 2016-02-08T07:19:22Z 2015 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16862 eng application/pdf Department of Environmental and Geographical Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Environmental and Geographical Science Schultz, Oliver John Power and democracy: the politics of representation and participation in small-scale fisheries governance on the Cape Peninsula |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Power and democracy: the politics of representation and participation in small-scale fisheries governance on the Cape Peninsula |
| title_full | Power and democracy: the politics of representation and participation in small-scale fisheries governance on the Cape Peninsula |
| title_fullStr | Power and democracy: the politics of representation and participation in small-scale fisheries governance on the Cape Peninsula |
| title_full_unstemmed | Power and democracy: the politics of representation and participation in small-scale fisheries governance on the Cape Peninsula |
| title_short | Power and democracy: the politics of representation and participation in small-scale fisheries governance on the Cape Peninsula |
| title_sort | power and democracy the politics of representation and participation in small scale fisheries governance on the cape peninsula |
| topic | Environmental and Geographical Science |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16862 |
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