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Mobilizing small-scale fishing communities for justice and sustainability: Opportunities for food systems transformation
Small-scale fisheries make vital contributions to nutrition, culture, food security, and livelihoods for millions of people across the globe. They also face considerable pressures related to ecological degradation, privatization, and top-down decision-making. The challenges facing small scale fisheries are deeply tied to the systemic inequities and sustainability challenges posed by the dominant global food system which is driven by capitalism and settler colonialism. This Collection examines the expressions and dynamics of community and social movement organizing towards justice and sustainability within small-scale fishing communities across the Global North and South. In so doing, we hope to further understand and advance collective action on sustainable development, social and environmental justice, and movements and mobilization while also considering how an analysis of social movements pertaining to food systems transformation may be enhanced by greater attention to the politics and governance of small-scale fishing communities.
Editors
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Kirsten Lowitt
Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen's Univeristy. Her research program is directed towards working with communities to build just and sustainable food systems in rural and coastal settings; e-mail: kristen.lowitt@queensu.ca
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Charles Levkoe
The Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems and an Associate Professor at Lakehead University. His research uses a food systems lens to better understand the importance of, and connections between social justice, ecological regeneration, regional economies, and active democratic engagement. Working directly with a range of scholars and community-based practitioners, he studies the evolution of the broader collective of social movement networks which views the right to food as a central component of more sustainable futures. https://foodsystems.lakeheadu.ca/
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Milena Schreiber
Researcher at the School of Global Studies at University of Gothenburg, Sweden and holds currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Her research focuses on institutional challenges for sustainable fisheries management and governance. On this topic, she has worked with commercial anchovy fisheries for fishmeal production in the Peruvian Upwelling Ecosystem and with small-scale fisheries in the Baltic Sea. She is currently doing research on the potential of sustainable seafood systems for the valorization of small-scale shellfish gathers.
