Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey: The Management of Natural Resources, Knowledge and Identity on the Eastern Black Sea Coast

by Ståle Knudsen

Book Overview

Through the ethnography and history of fish production, seafood consumption, state modernizing policies and marine science, this book analyzes the role of local knowledge in the management of marine resources on the Eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey. Fishing, science and other ways of knowing and relating to fish and the sea are analyzed as particular ways of life conditioned by history, ideology and daily practice. The approach adopted here allows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845453751
• ISBN13: 9781845453756
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"