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Transformation and Modes of Production

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The introduction of private and individual transferable quotas is widely considered to have a negative impact on small- and medium-sized fishing operations. In this chapter, I set out to explore this in a theoretical manner. I discuss the differences in the fishing operations as two contrasting modes of production and examine the ways of life that are enabled by the two modes of production. The central questions are around how market-based fisheries management transforms the principal preconditions for the self-employed fishers; and, in turn, why capitalist organized large-scale fisheries are promoted by this type of fisheries management.

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    In the following I refer to and examine the analysis conducted in Chap. 5 of “Dannelsens Dialektik” (Højrup 2002, pp. 221–272). The chapter is the most detailed and updated version of material developed over many years (Højrup 1983, 2003). Because of the Danish language I have chosen not to use direct quotes, but I will reference the text when appropriate. The broadest introduction to the state and life-mode analysis in English is “State, Culture and Life-modes” (Højrup 2003).

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    “The problem addressed by the concept of a mode of production is one of producing knowledge rather than classifying data. One looks at societies from the standpoint of a mode of production and from a certain level of abstraction; but this is not to say that additional specificity, that is knowledge at a more historically determinate level, is produced deductively or reductively from general concepts.” (Resch 1992, p. 84)

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Høst, J. (2015). Transformation and Modes of Production. In: Market-Based Fisheries Management. MARE Publication Series, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16432-8_6

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