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Focusing on Iceland, this chapter both compares the ecological knowledge of fishers and professional marine biologists and examines changes in their relative importance in public discourse and resource management in the course of recent history. My approach is informed by both the theory of practice, with its notions of situated action emphasizing the role of direct engagement with everyday tasks, and Foucault’s conception of social discourse. The empirical data used are based on written documents as well as interviews and ethnographic fieldwork.
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Pálsson, G. (1998). The Birth of the Aquarium: the Political Ecology of Icelandic Fishing. In: Gray, T.S. (eds) The Politics of Fishing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26775-0_14
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