Habitus of Making Salmon People: How artificial propagation technologies reorganized fishing communities in Sanriku

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24730425
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Osaka Prefecture University
• Principal Investigator: FUKUNAGA MAYUMI 大阪府立大学, 現代システム科学域, 准教授 (70509207)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: サケ / 増殖 / 資源管理 / 記憶と物語 / 科学技術と専門家

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Since the Meiji period and the origins of the state’s modernization of fisheries and resource management, salmon propagation has always been the preeminent concern of Japan’s national fisheries policies, and its practices have since become an essential pillar of the subsistence strategies of local fishing communities in Northern Japan.This research examines the complex socio-environmental interactions and outcomes of these state, community, and technological actors, examining their histories subsequent to this policy shift, these new technological developments, efforts at state modernization and control, and community adaptation. In particular this research places the subsistence environmental strategies, livelihoods, and political relations of these local fisher communities at the nexus of these historical, multi-scale interactions with state institutions, science and productivity-based technologies and economic production.

Free Research Field

環境社会学