Revaluing Coastal Fisheries How Small Boats Navigate New Markets and Technology /

• Main Author: Dobeson, Alexander (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Human geography.; Economic sociology.; Economic geography.; Cultural geography.; Environmental management.; Human Geography.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Economic Geography.; Cultural Geography.; Environmental Management.
• Physical Description: XIV, 266 p. 34 illus., 20 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030050870
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05087-0

This book illustrates and explains the consequences of neoliberal reform on rural economies. Based on an ethnographic case study of coastal fisheries in Iceland, it poses the following questions: How are rural fishers navigating liberal capitalism? And how are new markets, property-rights and digital technologies transforming rural economies? By drawing on an extensive body of literature on economic sociology and science and technology studies, the book offers a novel understanding of the role of market-based reform for rural development.