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Fish on the Move

Fishing Between Discourses and Borders in the Northern Adriatic

  • Fish on the Move is one of the first books to ethnographically present the complex world of the North Adriatic region, a region that carries any number of historical and contemporary resonances with many other parts of Europe and the Mediterranean
  • It is also the first book in English to cover a topic of Slovene maritime fisheries, contributing importantly to the scholarly debate within the maritime anthropological studies
  • It pertains to an ethnographic area that is in many respects terra incognita for an English-speaking anthropological audience

Part of the book series: MARE Publication Series (MARE, volume 11)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. An Introductory Stroll Along the Coastal Landscapes of Northeastern Adriatic

    • Nataša Rogelja, Alenka Janko Spreizer
    Pages 1-31
  3. Orientation: NE Adriatic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-36
    2. The Field of Ethnological Study Between Borders and Discourses

      • Nataša Rogelja, Alenka Janko Spreizer
      Pages 37-62
  4. Transformation: Slovene Fishermen After the Separation from SFR Yugoslavia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-68
    2. Fishing in Slovenia After 1991

      • Nataša Rogelja, Alenka Janko Spreizer
      Pages 69-83
    3. Conversations on the Pier

      • Nataša Rogelja, Alenka Janko Spreizer
      Pages 85-105
  5. Innovation: Uses of Authenticity in North-Eastern Adriatic Corner

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-112
    2. Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Coastal Tourism

      • Nataša Rogelja, Alenka Janko Spreizer
      Pages 113-127
    3. Fishing for Tourists

      • Nataša Rogelja, Alenka Janko Spreizer
      Pages 129-144
    4. How Authentic Is Fishing Tourism in Slovenia?

      • Nataša Rogelja, Alenka Janko Spreizer
      Pages 145-170
  6. Management: Sustainable Development, Projects and Common Fisheries Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-175
    2. Walk Along the Protected Areas and Navigation with Sustainable Fishermen

      • Nataša Rogelja, Alenka Janko Spreizer
      Pages 177-189
    3. European Books Are Too Big for Us

      • Nataša Rogelja, Alenka Janko Spreizer
      Pages 191-204
    4. Small Fish in a Big World

      • Nataša Rogelja, Alenka Janko Spreizer
      Pages 205-214

About this book

This book analyses the relation between different discourses and actors through an ethnographic approach, showing not only how fishermen in Slovenia respond to international political economy, how they struggle to survive but also how they generate small changes. Fishing in the northeastern part of the Adriatic Sea makes for a substantial economy anchored in many stories. Regional conflicts, wars, the demise of empires and the rise of nation states with ensuing maritime border issues, socialist heritage, transnational and transformational processes in Europe, and the growth of capitalist relations between production and consumption in coastal areas, have all contributed to the specific discourses that have affected this relatively under-researched area. How this complex, layered and ambiguous quarrelling is constituted at different levels and how this situation is lived and experienced by the local fishermen working along the present Slovene coast effectively forms the core of this book.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Slovenian Migration Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Nataša Rogelja

  • The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Primorska, Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Institute of Intercultural Studies, Koper, Slovenia

    Alenka Janko Spreizer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fish on the Move

  • Book Subtitle: Fishing Between Discourses and Borders in the Northern Adriatic

  • Authors: Nataša Rogelja, Alenka Janko Spreizer

  • Series Title: MARE Publication Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51897-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51895-4Published: 02 March 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84772-6Published: 13 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51897-8Published: 21 February 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2212-6260

  • Series E-ISSN: 2212-6279

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 214

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management

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Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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