TY - BOOK AU - Fabinyi, Michael AB - Fishing for Fairness develops an explicitly cultural perspective on environmental politics in the Philippines by analysing the responses of fishers to marine resource regulations. In the resource frontier of the Calamianes Islands, fishing, conservation and tourism provide the context where competing visions of how to engage with marine resources are played out. The book draws on data from ethnographic fieldwork with fishers, government and NGO officials, fish traders and tourism operators to show how the strategic responses of fishers to management initiatives are couched within particular cultural idioms. Tapping into broader notions of morality in the Philippines, fishers express a discourse that emphasises their poverty and the obligations of the wealthy to treat them with fairness. By deploying this discourse, fishers are able to reframe what are—on the surface—questions of environmental management into issues about poverty within particular social relationships. By using a cultural political ecology framework to analyse fishers’ responses to regulation, the book emphasises the distinctive ways in which marginalised people in the Philippines resist and reframe resource management initiatives. Fishing for Fairness will appeal to both academics and policy makers interested in marine resource management, political ecology, anthropology and development studies particularly throughout the Asia-Pacific. DO - 10.26530/OAPEN_459237 ID - OAPEN ID: 459237 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 848080751 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33749 KW - philippines KW - marine resources KW - attitudes KW - management KW - working poor KW - fishing KW - Calamian Islands KW - Environmental degradation KW - Fishery KW - Grouper KW - Illegal KW - unreported and unregulated fishing KW - Live fish trade KW - Palawan KW - Tourism L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33749/1/459237.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33749/1/459237.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31596 PB - ANU Press PP - Canberra PY - 2012 TI - Fishing for Fairness : Poverty, Morality and Marine Resource Regulation in the Philippines ER -