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Balancing the tides : marine practices in American Sāmoa / JoAnna Poblete
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press |
| Year | [2020] |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (xv, 186 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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| Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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| Contents | Native commercial fishing and indigenous debates over regulations in the U.S. Pacific Minimal returns: colonial minimum wage issues and the global tuna canning industry The devolution of marine sanctuary development inm American Sāmoa The impact of the U.S. imperial grants system on indigenous marine programs |
| Notes | "Balancing the Tides highlights the influence of marine practices and policies in the unincorporated territory of American Sāmoa on the local indigenous group, the American fishing industry, international seafood consumption, U.S. environmental programs, as well as global ecological and native concerns. Poblete explains how U.S. federal fishing programs in the post-World War II period encouraged labor based out of American Sāmoa to catch and can one-third of all tuna for United States consumption until 2009. Labeled Made in the USA, this commodity was sometimes caught by non-U.S. regulated ships, produced under labor standards far below continental U.S. minimum wage and maximum work hours, and entered U.S. jurisdiction tax free. The second half of the book explores the tensions between indigenous and U.S. federal government environmental goals and ecology programs. Whether creating the largest National Marine Sanctuary under U.S. jurisdiction or collecting basic data on local fishing, initiatives that balanced western-based and native expectations for respectful community relationships and appropriate government programs fared better than those that did not acknowledge the positionality of all groups involved. Despite being under the direct authority of the United States, American Sāmoans have maintained a degree of local autonomy due to the Deeds of Cession signed with the U.S. Navy at the turn of the twentieth century that created shared indigenous and federal governance in the region. Balancing the Tides demonstrates how western-style economics, policy-making, and knowledge building imposed by the U.S. federal government have been infused into the daily lives of American Sāmoans. American colonial efforts to protect natural resources based on western approaches intersect with indigenous insistence on adhering to customary principles of respect, reciprocity, and native rights in complicated ways. Experiences and lessons learned from these case studies provide insight into other tensions between colonial governments and indigenous peoples engaging in environmental and marine-based policy-making across the Pacific and the globe. This study connects the U.S.-American Sāmoa colonial relationship to global overfishing, world consumption patterns, the for-profit fishing industry, international environmental movements and studies, as well as native experiences and indigenous rights." Includes bibliographical references "This book is published as part of the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot." Print version record |
| Authors | *Poblete, JoAnna, 1974- |
| Subjects | BSH:Electronic books FREE:Book FREE:Agriculture, agribusiness & food production industries FREE:Australasian & Pacific history FREE:Indigenous peoples FREE:International economics FREE:Jurisprudence & general issues FREE:Microeconomics FREE:Politics & government LCSH:Fishery management -- American Samoa All Subject Search LCSH:Fishery policy -- American Samoa All Subject Search LCSH:Tuna canning industry -- American Samoa All Subject Search LCSH:Marine resources -- American Samoa -- Management All Subject Search FREE:Agriculture & related industries FREE:Australasian & Pacific history FREE:Indigenous peoples FREE:International economics FREE:Jurisprudence & general issues FREE:Microeconomics FREE:Politics & government BISACSH:HISTORY -- Oceania All Subject Search FREE:Fishery management FREE:Fishery policy FREE:Marine resources -- Management All Subject Search FREE:Tuna canning industry FREE:American Samoa |
| Classification | DC23:338.3/727099613 |
| ID | ED00004446 |
| ISBN | 9780824883393 |