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Involvement and participation of small-scale fishers’ organizations in the Azor...

International regulatory bodies such as the United Nations (UN) and its Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have widely recognized and highlighted the importance of small-scale fisheries as catalysts for sustainable growth and local development. Similarly, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) has reported on the need for a change in governance structures, practices and proce...

Azorean fishers and policy decisions

Drawing from long term social science research in the coastal fishing communities of the Azores archipelago, we highlight the ways that small-scale fishers are prevented from influencing policy decisions, in large part because of the way much science and public discourse excludes people from the ocean. In particular, we show how lack of consideration for gender not only leaves half of the population out of the ...

’The force of the better argument?’ Azorean small-scale fishers’ agency and par...

Participatory governance is an increasing norm in European Fisheries, however policy making strategies have been driven by bio-economic models that ascribe top priority to the biological and economic research domains. Governance structures fall short on moving from inclusive narratives and discourses to effective and genuinely participatory practices and a continuing tension exists, and has remained unchanged f...

Artisanal fishing community, Azores, Portugal

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Blind Running: 25 Pictures Per Page

This experiential visual open work is built from a myriad of words, languages, cultures, and critical theories. . . . books and bombs, dance and record labels, mothers and daughters, small villages and islands, diaries and story, colonization and immigration, violence and healing, leaving and returning . . . wild animals It is a collaborative attempt to use untranslated images and untranslated embodied praxis t...

In Response to a Call: Evoking a Keynote

This is an escape from individualism, competition, and transmissive education practices which are the norms within higher education conferences of the neoliberal university. It is built from the script of a video abstract submitted to a call for keynote presenters for an international congress. Using tricksters and poetic presentations, we offer an open work inviting readers to have fun and make meaning from ou...

Civil participation between private and public spheres: the island sphere and f...

This paper discusses civic participation with reference to fishing communities in the Azores archipelago, Portugal. We explore how concepts and political processes actively exclude people, and how researchers could dig deeper to find opportunities to build from diverse cultural practices of participation. Specifically, we describe examples of efforts towards participatory sustainable development as well as intr...

Tecendo parcerias e projetos entre comunidades piscatórias para a inclusão soci...

Casting nets for social inclusion: Weaving partnerships across the sea: Final r...

Unidos pelo SOS: biólogos, psicólogos, designers e entomólogos numa aliança est...

A Cryptotermes brevis é das pragas de insetos que maiores danos causam ao ser capaz de consumir toda a infraestrutura em madeira de uma habitação. $120 milhões são gastos anualmente nos EUA para o seu controlo e inumeráveis somas no resto do globo. Nos Açores, 17 freguesias de 6 ilhas estão delimitadas como áreas de risco de infestação e desconhece-se a situação em muitos locais de várias ilhas.