TY - JOUR
AU - Bonanno, Alessandro
AB - ABSTRACT The globalization of socio‐economic relations is a central topic of discussion in both the general literature on economy and society and in the area of food and agriculture. Many maintain that we are in a transition from one era, termed Fordism, to another, called Global Post‐Fordism. We use the case of two fisheries eco‐labeling programs to inform discussions regarding the emergence of stabilizing socio‐economic mechanisms in the Global Post‐Fordist era. We argue that recent developments in the tuna‐dolphin case, the first major experiment with eco‐labeling in the fisheries industries, combined with the Marine Stewardship Council, an initiative designed to regulate and certify a system of global “sustainable fisheries” through an eco‐labeling program, provide valuable insights into the ideological and organizational structure of salient global actors in the Post‐Fordist era. The discussion addresses (1) the contested terrain within the “North” and between the “North” and the “South” regarding eco‐legislation to regulate the global fisheries; (2) the fracturing of the environmental movement into “mainstream” and “grassroots” camps and the resulting inability to maintain a coordinated agenda to counter the globalization project; and (3) the emergence of new forms of supranational state‐like regulatory mechanisms that combine science with free trade and environmental ideals and propose to resolve the global fisheries crises by providing sustainable socio‐economic coordination. We conclude that the emergence of these supra‐national state‐like NGOs raises important implications for the sovereignty of nation‐states and democratic action on the part of subordinate groups opposed to the globalization project.
TI - Contested Terrain of the Global Fisheries: “Dolphin‐Safe” Tuna, The Panama Declaration, and the Marine Stewardship Council
JF - Rural Sociology
DO - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1999.tb00380.x
DA - 1999-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/contested-terrain-of-the-global-fisheries-dolphin-safe-tuna-the-panama-7ixty4tTpo
SP - 597
VL - 64
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -