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The Value of Values for Understanding Transdisciplinary Approaches to Small-Scale Fisheries

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Abstract

The key lesson values bring to transdisciplinarity is that the latter should not be confused with synthesis. Rather, a careful theoretically-informed consideration of values suggests that engagements across difference – disciplinary, fisher and non-fisher, policy-maker and activist, male and female, wealthy and poor, etcetera – are necessarily extremely difficult. They involve challenging, and often failed, efforts to translate between varying perceptions, paradigms, and priorities. Communications among those who are different from one another are tricky and subject to accumulating histories that may bring actors together, but may also build suspicion, distrust, and conflict. In this chapter, we do not seek to propose an answer to the process questions of value-sensitive transdisciplinary engagement. Rather, we contrast implicit and explicit approaches to value through six approaches to studying small-scale fisheries: economic valuation; ecosystem services; political economy; social wellbeing; interactive governance; and, post-normal science. This comparative analysis shows not only the benefits, but also the challenges, that are at play in constituting a value-sensitive transdisciplinary approach to small-scale fisheries.

Keywords

  • Held values
  • Assigned values
  • Objective values
  • Relational values
  • Translation
  • Knowledge
  • Power
  • Governance

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    Derek S. Johnson & Sölmundur K. Pálsson

  2. St. Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Annie Lalancette

  3. Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Mimi E. Lam

  4. Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Marta Leite

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Johnson, D.S., Lalancette, A., Lam, M.E., Leite, M., Pálsson, S.K. (2019). The Value of Values for Understanding Transdisciplinary Approaches to Small-Scale Fisheries. In: Chuenpagdee, R., Jentoft, S. (eds) Transdisciplinarity for Small-Scale Fisheries Governance. MARE Publication Series, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94938-3_3

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