"I'm Not a Greenie but...": Environmentality, Eco-Populism and Governance in New Zealand Experiences from the Southland Whitebait Fishery

Autor/in	Haggerty, Julia Hobson
Titel	"I'm Not a Greenie but...": Environmentality, Eco-Populism and Governance in New Zealand Experiences from the Southland Whitebait Fishery
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 23 (2007) 2, S.222-237 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2006.11.002
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Natural Resources; Rural Areas; Case Studies; Ecology; Animal Husbandry; Environmental Education; Governance; Politics; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Ökologie; Tierhaltung; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Politik; Neuseeland
Abstract	The experiences of nascent local institutions in regional resource management issues in New Zealand can help to inform the important analytical projects of considering the impacts of neoliberalism on environmental management as well as the meanings of governance as the new order in rural and natural resource management. This study considers how devolved governance shapes individual subject positions relative to the environment in a neoliberal context, deploying Agrawal's optics of "environmentality" to analyze a case study of the political ecology of the whitebait fishery in Southland, New Zealand. This research demonstrates that the devolution of resource governance in New Zealand has cultivated empowered, "accidental environmentalists" and related environmental subjectivities. The extent and quality of individual involvement in governance influences whitebaiters' perceptions of environmental change and resource management priorities. At the same time, a strong "eco-populist" conceptualization of resource management infuses the fishers' environmental subjectivities and potentially constrains the depth and degree of fishers' opposition to environmental degradation. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10