This book is a narrative non-fiction based on the patchy epistemologies of traditional small-scale fishers in India and the Indian Ocean region. It specifically explores the impact of climate change on Fish and Fishers and the mutual entanglements in their eco-social world. Further it critically examines the nature of climate change adaptation and its implications on small-scale fisheries. Both climate change impact and adaptation responses are examined from the situated knowledge and everyday lived experiences of Fishers. Stories of their everyday struggles from diverse eco-social worlds shape these patchy epistemologies. Further this book through these stories unearths the transitions in governance and changing relationships between Fish Fishers and the rest of the eco-social world. Responding ethically to the problems of climate change warming oceans fish scarcity overfishing and pollution requires us to break away from the paradigms that locate Nature and Society as binaries and commodities. Blue justice can be achieved only if strategies aimed at adaptation conservation and well-being are dialogical inclusive and Fish-Fisher centred. This book offers insights into the worldviews of Fishers and their stewardship wisdom and experience in healing today’s warming world. Locating the eco-social worlds of Fish and Fishers in alternative worldviews this book strives to find meaningful pathways for just transitions. It will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the field of climate change fisheries disaster studies and sustainable livelihoods as well as related subjects of social work and social justice. |Climate Change Small-Scale Fisheries and Blue Justice Fishscapes and Alternative Worldviews | Health & Social Care
