Africa: Shrinking spaces

Lokuge, Gayathri (2024) Africa: Shrinking spaces. Yemaya (69). pp. 14-15. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

Women in small-scale fishing communities bear the worst impacts as coastal space in the Indian Ocean region is increasingly encroached upon by state and private activities. This article is based on a cross-regional study that focused on how ruptures in the form of environmental stress and political economic pressures impacted small-scale fishing communities and were especially mediated by the intersectional social relations of gender, ethnicity/race, caste, class, and place. Drawing upon the work of David Harvey, the research team investigated how capitalist accumulation physically, discursively, and institutionally constrained access by small-scale coastal actors to spaces for action. Our observation is that the space for action by small-scale actors and populations in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is increasingly being encroached upon by state and private activities. We label these processes of dispossession as ‘shrinking space’

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM621
Keywords:	Africa, Small-scale Fisheries, Fishing Communities, Livelihoods, Stakeholders, Coastal Aquaculture, Indian Ocean Region (IOR), ICSF
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Kokila ICSF Krish
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2025 07:55
Last Modified:	25 Mar 2025 11:11
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/21556

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