The fishing industry is undergoing major restructuring driven by fisheries management and policy ... more The fishing industry is undergoing major restructuring driven by fisheries management and policy responses to ecological problems in key stocks. Many commentators and policy makers refer to a “crisis” in fisheries, with a number of commercial species in serious decline and the livelihoods of fishers, especially those in smaller fishing communities, seriously threatened. This paper suggests that while much is known about the ecological and economic aspects of fisheries, the social and cultural impacts of fisheries and their management has been under-researched and is often overlooked in policy. The paper is composed of three sections: firstly, a review of European fisheries policy is presented, highlighting the lack of social objectives; secondly, a review of recent social science literature that addresses social and cultural aspects of fisheries management. Finally, as a result of this review, a number of gaps in the research agenda are identified and potential areas for future work are suggested in order to inform and influence the development of a sustainable fisheries policy. Such work is especially relevant and timely given the current review of the European Common Fisheries Policy, due to be completed by 1st January 2013.
… Food Futures: Trade, Ethics and the …, Jan 1, 2008
The robustness and quality of life offered by rural communities have long been topics of debate a... more The robustness and quality of life offered by rural communities have long been topics of debate and controversy. For many commentators, rural livelihoods and businesses are wrapped in a warm nostalgic glow in a belief that the past and the rural walk hand-in-hand ...
... support of my colleagues in the projects discussed above, Guy Cook, Peter Robbins and Alison ... more ... support of my colleagues in the projects discussed above, Guy Cook, Peter Robbins and Alison Twiner on the ESRC project – 'The discourse of organic food promotion: language, intentions and effects' and Allan Butler and Matt ... Lobley et al., 2005; M. Lobley, M. Reed et al. ...
Genomics researchers and policy makers have accused nutrigenetic testing companies—which provide ... more Genomics researchers and policy makers have accused nutrigenetic testing companies—which provide DNA-based nutritional advice online—of misleading the public. The UK and USA regulation of the tests has hinged on whether they are classed as “medical” devices, and alternative regulatory categories for “lifestyle” and less-serious genetic tests have been proposed. This article presents the findings of a qualitative thematic analysis of the webpages of nine nutrigenetic testing companies. We argue that the companies, mirroring and negotiating the regulatory debates, were creating a new social space for products between medicine and consumer culture. This space was articulated through three themes: (i) how “genes” and tests were framed, (ii) how the individual was imagined vis a vis health information, and (iii) the advice and treatments offered. The themes mapped onto four frames or models for genetic testing: (i) clinical genetics, (ii) medicine, (iii) intermediate, and (iv) lifestyle. We suggest that the genomics researchers and policy makers appeared to perform what Gieryn (Gieryn, T.F. (1983). Boundary-work and the demarcation of science from non-science: strains and interests in professional ideologies of scientists. American Sociological Review, 48, 781–795.) has termed “boundary work”, i.e., to delegitimize the tests as outside proper medicine and science. Yet, they legitimated them, though in a different way, by defining them as lifestyle, and we contend that the transformation of the boundaries of science into a creation of such hybrid or compromise categories is symptomatic of current historical times. Social scientists studying medicine have referred to the emergence of “lifestyle” products. This article contributes to this literature by examining the historical, regulatory and marketing processes through which certain goods and services become defined this way.
Abstract Debates over food politics provide insight into the convergence of commercial and politi... more Abstract Debates over food politics provide insight into the convergence of commercial and political discourses. As the organic food market has grown, campaigners and independent producers have faced the dilemma of how far they should promote their cause using ...
... Matt Reed, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. ... Recognising that these areas have decl... more ... Matt Reed, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. ... Recognising that these areas have declining traditional industries leading to serious economic and social problems, as well as poor rates of GDP, training and re-skilling the resident workforce becomes essential to boosting ...
... campaigner and journalist George Monbiot. This group was experienced campaigners who had ofte... more ... campaigner and journalist George Monbiot. This group was experienced campaigners who had often been involved in the roads protest of the early 1990s ([McKay, 1996] and [McKay, 1998]). Friendship groups are common ...
... Balfour's purpose was to prove scientifi cally the superiority of or-ganic farming, b... more ... Balfour's purpose was to prove scientifi cally the superiority of or-ganic farming, by running the competing farming systems side-by-side. ... on quite what organic farming should consist of during these years, with a wide variety of experimentation taking place (Corley, 1957). ...
The fishing industry is undergoing major restructuring driven by fisheries management and policy ... more The fishing industry is undergoing major restructuring driven by fisheries management and policy responses to ecological problems in key stocks. Many commentators and policy makers refer to a “crisis” in fisheries, with a number of commercial species in serious decline and the livelihoods of fishers, especially those in smaller fishing communities, seriously threatened. This paper suggests that while much is known about the ecological and economic aspects of fisheries, the social and cultural impacts of fisheries and their management has been under-researched and is often overlooked in policy. The paper is composed of three sections: firstly, a review of European fisheries policy is presented, highlighting the lack of social objectives; secondly, a review of recent social science literature that addresses social and cultural aspects of fisheries management. Finally, as a result of this review, a number of gaps in the research agenda are identified and potential areas for future work are suggested in order to inform and influence the development of a sustainable fisheries policy. Such work is especially relevant and timely given the current review of the European Common Fisheries Policy, due to be completed by 1st January 2013.
… Food Futures: Trade, Ethics and the …, Jan 1, 2008
The robustness and quality of life offered by rural communities have long been topics of debate a... more The robustness and quality of life offered by rural communities have long been topics of debate and controversy. For many commentators, rural livelihoods and businesses are wrapped in a warm nostalgic glow in a belief that the past and the rural walk hand-in-hand ...
... support of my colleagues in the projects discussed above, Guy Cook, Peter Robbins and Alison ... more ... support of my colleagues in the projects discussed above, Guy Cook, Peter Robbins and Alison Twiner on the ESRC project – 'The discourse of organic food promotion: language, intentions and effects' and Allan Butler and Matt ... Lobley et al., 2005; M. Lobley, M. Reed et al. ...
Genomics researchers and policy makers have accused nutrigenetic testing companies—which provide ... more Genomics researchers and policy makers have accused nutrigenetic testing companies—which provide DNA-based nutritional advice online—of misleading the public. The UK and USA regulation of the tests has hinged on whether they are classed as “medical” devices, and alternative regulatory categories for “lifestyle” and less-serious genetic tests have been proposed. This article presents the findings of a qualitative thematic analysis of the webpages of nine nutrigenetic testing companies. We argue that the companies, mirroring and negotiating the regulatory debates, were creating a new social space for products between medicine and consumer culture. This space was articulated through three themes: (i) how “genes” and tests were framed, (ii) how the individual was imagined vis a vis health information, and (iii) the advice and treatments offered. The themes mapped onto four frames or models for genetic testing: (i) clinical genetics, (ii) medicine, (iii) intermediate, and (iv) lifestyle. We suggest that the genomics researchers and policy makers appeared to perform what Gieryn (Gieryn, T.F. (1983). Boundary-work and the demarcation of science from non-science: strains and interests in professional ideologies of scientists. American Sociological Review, 48, 781–795.) has termed “boundary work”, i.e., to delegitimize the tests as outside proper medicine and science. Yet, they legitimated them, though in a different way, by defining them as lifestyle, and we contend that the transformation of the boundaries of science into a creation of such hybrid or compromise categories is symptomatic of current historical times. Social scientists studying medicine have referred to the emergence of “lifestyle” products. This article contributes to this literature by examining the historical, regulatory and marketing processes through which certain goods and services become defined this way.
Abstract Debates over food politics provide insight into the convergence of commercial and politi... more Abstract Debates over food politics provide insight into the convergence of commercial and political discourses. As the organic food market has grown, campaigners and independent producers have faced the dilemma of how far they should promote their cause using ...
... Matt Reed, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. ... Recognising that these areas have decl... more ... Matt Reed, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. ... Recognising that these areas have declining traditional industries leading to serious economic and social problems, as well as poor rates of GDP, training and re-skilling the resident workforce becomes essential to boosting ...
... campaigner and journalist George Monbiot. This group was experienced campaigners who had ofte... more ... campaigner and journalist George Monbiot. This group was experienced campaigners who had often been involved in the roads protest of the early 1990s ([McKay, 1996] and [McKay, 1998]). Friendship groups are common ...
... Balfour's purpose was to prove scientifi cally the superiority of or-ganic farming, b... more ... Balfour's purpose was to prove scientifi cally the superiority of or-ganic farming, by running the competing farming systems side-by-side. ... on quite what organic farming should consist of during these years, with a wide variety of experimentation taking place (Corley, 1957). ...
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